Lukashenko demanded decisive changes to the Constitution

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the basic law of the country needs to be changed. According to the head of state, he was presented with several versions of the updated Constitution, but the changes were "not decisive enough."

“The Constitution is the fundamental law. We will do it in two years. Several options have already been suggested to me, but they are not suitable. People are simply afraid to make more drastic changes to the Constitution. I think we need to do this. Even before the adoption of the Constitution, we will do a lot in terms of transferring powers down to the chairmen of the district executive committees, the governor, ”the president said.

This is not the first time Lukashenka has spoken about changes to the Belarusian Basic Law. So, in April 2020, he announced that a new Constitution would be adopted in Belarus in the next five years. And Lukashenka raised this topic back in 2019 - in November he promised to create a group of specialists who would work on the preparation of a draft Constitution. He noted that changes to it should not be made "in a hurry", and therefore he will not set any deadlines.

Now Belarus, like Russia, is a presidential republic, the president is elected for five years.

The next elections will be held on August 9, and they will probably not register the detained main rival of Lukashenka running for his sixth term, banker Vladimir Babariko. One of the points of Babariko's program is the return of the limit on presidential terms of one person, prescribed in the 1994 Constitution.