Belarus may get new constitution within 2 years - Lukashenko
<p> MINSK, Jun 26 - PrimePress. The new Constitution of Belarus may be adopted within two years. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko made a statement to this effect during his working trip to Soligorsk District, Minsk Oblast, on June 26. </p> <p> </p> <p> “The Constitution is the Fundamental Law. We will make it in two years. Several options have already been suggested to me - they are no good. </p> <p> </p> <p> People are just afraid of introducing more resolute amendments to the Constitution. I think we should do it. Before we adopt the Constitution, we will do a lot in terms of transferring more power to the lower-level authorities, including heads of district administrations and governors,” Lukashenko’s press-service reports citing their patron as saying. </p> <p> </p> <p> According to him, local authorities should deal with their territories more broadly. “As for the redistribution of powers at the very top of the power – president, parliament and government – everything should be clearly written in the Constitution. It will be approved at a referendum; we should clearly define the way we will go. Either we take the road suggested by ‘alternative candidates', with privatization, reforms and so on, I will not be part of it, because I will not go as far as to disrupt the social system of our country,” said Lukashenko. </p> <p> </p> <p> He said that a return to the 1994 Constitution is a movement backwards. “We shouldn't talk about reform and moving forward if we lead the people back,” said Lukashenko. End </p>
2020-06-27
Primepress
Belarus may get new constitution within 2 years - Lukashenko
MINSK, Jun 26 - PrimePress. The new Constitution of Belarus may be adopted within two years. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko made a statement to this effect during his working trip to Soligorsk District, Minsk Oblast, on June 26.
“The Constitution is the Fundamental Law. We will make it in two years. Several options have already been suggested to me - they are no good.
People are just afraid of introducing more resolute amendments to the Constitution. I think we should do it. Before we adopt the Constitution, we will do a lot in terms of transferring more power to the lower-level authorities, including heads of district administrations and governors,” Lukashenko’s press-service reports citing their patron as saying.
According to him, local authorities should deal with their territories more broadly. “As for the redistribution of powers at the very top of the power – president, parliament and government – everything should be clearly written in the Constitution. It will be approved at a referendum; we should clearly define the way we will go. Either we take the road suggested by ‘alternative candidates', with privatization, reforms and so on, I will not be part of it, because I will not go as far as to disrupt the social system of our country,” said Lukashenko.
He said that a return to the 1994 Constitution is a movement backwards. “We shouldn't talk about reform and moving forward if we lead the people back,” said Lukashenko. End