Фото: пресс-служба Лукашенко
Alyaksandr Lukashenka demanded that the new leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Investigative Committee prevent any “revolutionary tendencies.” He made the statement while appointing Dzmitry Hora as prosecutor general and Kanstantsin Bychak as head of the Investigative Committee.
“This concerns both of you: no tendencies whatsoever toward ‘revolutionary’ struggle against the existing state system. There are elections for that. One must go to elections and resolve these issues there. In this respect, Belarus has everything. Especially since the current president, as I often say, is not clinging to power with fingers turning blue,” Lukashenka said.
At the same time, Lukashenka noted that although he calls himself “outgoing,” this does not mean he will leave tomorrow.
“I am an outgoing person. Although many seized on this: ‘Ah, outgoing!..’ Some are worried, some are happy. This does not mean that tomorrow we will drop everything and leave, myself included. But it is clear that I am no longer the person who is in the first or second year of working as president.
This means that I will strictly observe the rights and interests of our people. You must work in this vein,” he said.
Among Lukashenka’s other instructions to the new prosecutor general were to turn the prosecutor’s office into a headquarters and take over part of the functions of the Security Council apparatus, to present a claim in the case of the alleged genocide, and to fight corruption — otherwise, he warned, there would be war.