It is time to improve the implementation of decisions, Belarus President Aliaksandr Lukashenka made the statement as he made several personnel decisions on October, 14.
“If a decision is made by a single executive or the entire executive committee, the decision must be implemented. We need implementation discipline. The decision gets implemented, no ifs or buts. If the decision is not implemented, those, who failed, will be made answerable, including criminal prosecution,” state-owned news agency BelTA quotes him as saying.
The President stressed that the highest priority would be given to the implementation of decisions.
“But we are not going to change our decisions to suit the election. I am getting proposals, including ones from some opposition figures, in favour of holding the [presidential] election in March instead of November 2015 because the approval rating of the incumbent president is nearly 90%. It would be deception of our voters and the population. We cannot do it. Moreover, we cannot expose ourselves to criticism like that”.
Everything must be honest, the President said.
According to a survey recently conducted by the Vilnius-based Independent Institute of Socio-Economic and Political Studies, 53.5% of Belarusians (not 90%) trust President Lukashenka while 33.3% do not trust. His popularity did grow amid the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
