Aleksandr Lukashenko casts his ballot in Belarus’ presidential election

Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko voted in Belarus’ presidential election on 9 August.

As usual, the head of state cast his ballot at the polling station set up at the Belarusian State University of Physical Culture.

The President also answered reporters’ questions. He said that the situation in the country during the presidential election will not spiral out of control.

“Nothing will spiral out control. I guarantee that. This is the main objective for the ruling government, not only the President. You should not have any doubts about it, no matter what certain people are planning here and other things,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

According to the President, in the morning he heard out a report of the State Border Committee. In the recent time Belarus has refused entry to 170 people. “They either showed counterfeited visas or could not even explain why they are going here. Therefore, control on the border is very serious. We have also strengthened surveillance over the Belarusian-Russian part of the border due to recent events. By the way, we refused entry to some people there too,” the head of state remarked.

“We envisage different variants,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. He stressed that there are no grounds to say that the country will be brought into some confrontation after the election.

“We cannot underestimate the situation, but there are no grounds to say that tomorrow the country will plunge into chaos or some contradiction, or some civil war. I guarantee you that,” the President said.

He stressed that a lot of strange things have been taking place around Belarus. “I was thinking about all these events for a long time. The reason is simple: money. If there is money, they go to war, no matter what passport they have. The same is happening in our country. Money talks. Just imagine, certain people, who are in jail now, took a lot of money outside the country. We have not even found out how much yet. The things you saw on TV, it is just a drop in the ocean. Huge money there. They inject this money in the confrontation with the authorities. They think, maybe something will work out, maybe people will go to the streets, maybe Lukashenko will be killed and so on. There are various versions. We do not rule out anything,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

“I think tomorrow they will calm down and understand that everyone only lives once. Those, who confront the authorities, will have to live on this peace of land together,” the head of state said.

The President assured everyone that everything would be okay despite the difficult election campaign.