Russian envoy: I doubt Lukashenka will run for presidency in 2015
Russian Ambassador in Minsk Alexander Surikov gave a news conference in Minsk to discuss cooperation between Minsk and Moscow.
“The Belarusian President has not expressed such a desire yet. And I doubt that he will run for President. If he does, I would personally support him,” Surikov claimed.
He has met representatives of the Belarusian opposition and noticed that those people had no chance to win in 2015, the Russian Ambassador added.
“I have been meeting Belarusian politicians a lot. There are oppositionists among them. They cannot unite and have no programme,” Alexander Surikov claimed.
The next presidential election will be held in Belarus next year. The date has not been appointed yet.
