Europe's 'last dictator', Alexander Lukashenko, faces mounting opposition to his 26-year rule as thousands more join protests across Belarus
Tens of thousands of people, joined by workers from state-owned industrial plants, took to the streets for a sixth consecutive day on Friday, mounting the most serious political challenge to Lukashenko's tight grip on power."The next step is of the political elite and security officials. As soon as they join the people and stop carrying out criminal orders, it will be clear the regime has fallen," Kolesnikova said.
"It's absolutely obvious the elections were falsified. They musn't recognise the results of the elections that were published today," she said, when asked how she wanted theTsikhanouskaya, a former English teacher, ran for president after her husband was jailed and barred from the ballot. Her supporters say she won, but official election results gave her 10 percent of the vote and said Lukashenko won by a landslide.
Kolesnikova said she backed Tsikhanouskaya's programme. She called for the immediate release of people she described as political prisoners and said new elections should be held.
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