In Belarus 🇧🇾, Three Women Unite To Fight Strongman Lukashenko
"Three women have teamed up to fight presidential polls in #Belarus, pitting "female solidarity" against strongman #AlexanderLukashenko, who insists the country is not ready...
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"Three women have teamed up to fight presidential polls in #Belarus, pitting "female solidarity" against strongman #AlexanderLukashenko, who insists the country is not ready...
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...for a woman president. 🙄 #Lukashenko is standing for a sixth term in August 9 polls in the authoritarian country bordering Russia and the European Union.
The vote's result is in little doubt given his total dominance of previous elections, not recognised as free or fair...
The vote's result is in little doubt given his total dominance of previous elections, not recognised as free or fair...
...by Western observers. Law enforcement forces detained hundreds at opposition protests this week and three prominent opposition figures are in custody."
"But the contest has been shaken up by the decision of one woman, #SvetlanaTikhanovskaya, to stand for president...
"But the contest has been shaken up by the decision of one woman, #SvetlanaTikhanovskaya, to stand for president...
...in place of her husband, a popular opposition YouTube blogger, after the authorities prevented him from submitting his candidacy by detaining him. In a surprise move, the central electoral commission registered #Tikhanovskaya as a candidate on Tuesday."
"However, analysts reacted with scepticism, saying the opposition was too divided to make an impact after the central electoral commission dropped two stronger opposition candidates. These were #ViktorBabaryko, an ex-banker seen as #Lukashenko's strongest rival who has been...
...detained on suspicion of financial crimes, and #Valery #Tsepkalo, a popular opposition figure."
"Then on Thursday, the campaign teams of #Tikhanovskaya, #Babaryko, and #Tsepkalo announced they were joining forces. Tikhanovskaya posed for a campaign photo with...
"Then on Thursday, the campaign teams of #Tikhanovskaya, #Babaryko, and #Tsepkalo announced they were joining forces. Tikhanovskaya posed for a campaign photo with...
...#MariaKolesnikova, #Babaryko's campaign chief, and #VeronikaTsepkalo, the wife of the former diplomat turned opposition politician. #Tikhanovskaya defiantly punched the air, #Tsepkalo made a V sign and #Kolesnikova linked her fingers in a heart shape."
"The main item on yesterday's news was a photograph with three beautiful #Belarusian women together. It seems all of society was waiting right now for this union" wrote political analyst Alexander Feduta"
"The women repeated the gestures in #Minsk on Friday as #Tsepkalo urged...
"The women repeated the gestures in #Minsk on Friday as #Tsepkalo urged...
...#Belarusians to "vote for Svetlana!"
"We decided to unite and show what female solidarity is," she said. We're not second-class, we're equal to men, and we believe we'll win."
#Lukashenko has repeatedly belittled...
"We decided to unite and show what female solidarity is," she said. We're not second-class, we're equal to men, and we believe we'll win."
#Lukashenko has repeatedly belittled...
...women politicians. Belarusian society "has not yet matured enough to vote for a woman," he said in May, adding last month that a woman president "would collapse, poor thing." 🤮
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