On ninth day of protests, striking factory workers call on Belarus president to resign
Several thousand factory workers took to the streets of Minsk and hundreds of demonstrators besieged the state television headquarters Monday, raising the pressure on authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to step down after 26 years in office.against the official results of the Aug.
“I will never cave in to pressure,” Lukashenko told the workers. “Some of you might have got the impression that the government no longer exists, that it has tumbled down. The government will never collapse — you know me well. “There will be no new election until you kill me,” he added. But he suggested he was open to discussion of constitutional reforms in an apparent bid to stem the tide of protests, which are the most serious challenge that Lukashenko — often dubbed “Europe’s last dictator” — has faced during his iron-fisted rule of the ex-Soviet nation of 9.5 million.
The official results of the Aug. 9 election gave Lukashenko 80% of the votes and Tsikhanouskaya only 10%, but the opposition contends that the vote was rigged.
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