"Lukashenko Made A Confession"

Neither aides nor speechwriters can cope with the ruler's unexpected revelations.

And with what! Speaking about labor relations between managers and employees, Lukashenko publicly admitted that today there is no separation of branches of power in the country:

- We made a decision, and the judge's instruction was received. If there is something somewhere - the head must have some right. Here is the order - go and work. If you don't do it, your supervisor will skin you. If he does, you can't complain. If you go to court, the judges are instructed to base their decisions on this order, which is given to you.

It is interesting that at the last conference of the International Labor Organization, when there were calls to release activists and leaders of independent trade unions, who are now in prison in Belarus, the representatives of the Belarusian authorities indignantly said that there is a separation of powers in the country, and the authorities can't interfere with the court decision.

How badly the Foreign Ministry officials think about the authorities! What does it mean "cannot interfere"? It can do anything!

Leonid Sudalenko, a lawyer of the Solidarnost Association, noted in a conversation with "Salidarnastsu" that this is a direct violation of the constitutional principle of independence of the judiciary:

- In fact, this is Lukashenko's "confession" that he instructs judges how to consider labor disputes! A judge is obliged to be guided only by the law and inner conviction based on evidence, not by political will.

- Employees are often knowingly weaker than the employer economically and administratively. When the court turns into an instrument of "education" of workers, it ceases to be a guarantor of rights and becomes an extension of the executive vertical.

In practice, this will lead to the fact that workers are even less likely to go to court, knowing that the decision is predetermined by "instructions from above". And this is an undermining of the very idea of justice and social justice.

You can support the website Charter97.org

MULTI-CURRENCY ACCOUNT FOR ASSISTANCE:

Bank's name: Bank Millennium S.A.
Address: ul. Stanislawa Zaryna, 2A, 02-593, Warszawa
IBAN: PL97116022020000000216711123
SWIFT: BIGBPLPW
Name of the account holder: Fundacja “KARTA ‘97”
Purpose/title of payment: Donation for statuary aims

You can contact us by the e-mail [email protected]