Arrr! Captain Lukashenko be hoistin' his flag again, though the scallywags o' the opposition be shoutin' “Nay!”
2025-01-27
Arrr matey! Over the weekend, Belarus put on a grand show of an election, but the opposition and the EU called it a right jolly farce! Captain Lukashenko be sailin' his ship o' power for over 30 long years! Avast, what a merry mischief!
Ahoy, me hearties! Gather ‘round as I spin ye a yarn of a land called Belarus, where the scallywag known as President Alexander Lukashenko be steerin’ the ship for over three decades! Just this past weekend, he orchestrated a grand show of an election, one that the opposin’ crew and the European Union dubbed a right sham, akin to a jolly roger flyin’ high on a landlubber’s ship!The Central Election Commission, those crafty sea dogs, declared Lukashenko the victor with a staggering 87% of the loot—er, votes! Four pretender challengers sang his praises like bilge rats, while true opposition members be languishin’ in dungeons or sailin’ far from his iron grip. Many a brave soul once took to the streets in protest, but after a mighty crackdown, over 65,000 were clapped in irons and faced the lash!
The EU, not one to be fooled, cast the vote into the depths of illegitimacy and threatened a storm of sanctions. Lukashenko, ever the cunning captain, has swayed his fate with the aid of his matey, Vladimir Putin. As the tides of dissent rise again, the exiled leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya spoke of the election as a “senseless farce,” urging the good folk to toss out all the names on the ballot like rotten fish!
So, it seems, the winds of change be blowin’, but for now, the ship stays anchored in tyranny’s harbor!