Lukashenko: 'I am not a dictator, and if I am a dictator, then I am not the last.'
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a press conference in Minsk, Belarus July 6, 2023. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
When asked by Reuters on Thursday what he thought of the description and whether he was troubled by what might happen to Belarus after his rule, Lukashenko said that the reporter should apologise for such a question. Lukashenko's opponents, most of them now abroad, say he has rigged elections and has surrendered Belarus's sovereignty to Russia's President Vladimir Putin, whom Lukashenko refers to as his"elder brother".
"Sometimes I ask myself that question but then I am halted by another: what will happen in the future?" he said."I don't think I am indispensable but what would happen if a new person destroyed everything?"
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