Belarusians voted Monday to allow the country to host nuclear weapons and Russian forces permanently, results showed, part of a package of constitutional reforms that also extended the rule of leader Alexander Lukashenko.


The referendum was held Sunday as the ex-Soviet country's neighbour Ukraine is under attack from Russian troops and delegations from Moscow and Kyiv are expected to meet for talks on the Belarusian border.

Central Election Commission head Igor Karpenko said 65.16 percent of referendum participants voted in favour of the amendments and 10.07 percent voted against, Russian news agencies reported.

According to Karpenko, voter turnout stood at 78.63 percent.

To come into force, the amendments need to receive at least 50 percent of the vote with a turnout of over half the electorate.

Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, promised the referendum in the wake of historic protests against his disputed re-election in 2020.

By amending the constitution Lukashenko, 67, follows in the footsteps of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who in 2020 oversaw a vote on constitutional changes that made it possible for him to remain in power until 2036.

The constitutional changes also grant immunity to former leaders for crimes committed during their term in office.

Russia is a key ally of Belarus and last week Lukashenko allowed Russian troops to use Belarusian territory to invade Ukraine from the north.

Belarus inherited a number of Soviet nuclear warheads following the break-up of the USSR in 1991, according to the Nuclear Threat Initiative think tank, which it then transferred to Russia.

Lukashenko first floated possible changes after a presidential vote in August 2020 sparked unprecedented demonstrations that were met with a brutal crackdown.

He claimed a sixth term in the vote and imprisoned leading opposition figures, while his main rival Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was forced to seek refuge in neighbouring Lithuania.

The amendments would reinstate presidential term limits -- previously ditched by Lukashenko -- to two five-year terms, but they would only apply to the next elected president.

Were Lukashenko to put himself forward as a candidate for re-election in 2025, he could remain in power for an additional ten years.

Tikhanovskaya's office in Lithuania has hit out at the vote, saying that a sweeping crackdown on any dissenting voices since the 2020 election made any real discussion of the proposals impossible.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220228-belarus-approves-hosting-nuclear-weapons-russian-forces-permanently

What do you expect from a remote that's being controlled by putin the bloody monster?
Putin should keep sending his thousands of army to Ukraine .. they will never ever survive and achieve their evil motive against Ukraine and the world...
A bully and evil should be wiped out of earth.. this will serve as a lesson to any upcoming dictator terrorist planning to disturb the world's peace..thy shalt be cut off by the mighty hands of the great America..

God bless Lukashenko.

BTW, the uneducated person above me doesn't know that if God were to wipe out bullies, the Western Masters whom he worships would be the first to go. Their bullying mentality went as far as China during Opium war era. They threw took his ancestors as slaves and when they saw that it wasn't enough, they came down to his country to colonize him. After colonization, they then put conditions that would forever keep him in shackles. What does he do after all these?

He hails them when they illegally invade other countries and describes their victims as terrorists.

He attacks anything that his white masters attack without regards for critical reasoning.

He supports anyone that resists slavery or subjucation from his Western overlords.

I weep

Crayfish09:
God bless Lukashenko.

BTW, the uneducated person above me doesn't know that if God were to wipe out bullies, the Western Masters whom he worships would be the first to go. Their bullying mentality went as far as China during Opium war era. They threw took his ancestors as slaves and when they saw that it wasn't enough, they came down to his country to colonize him. After colonization, they then put conditions that would forever keep him in shackles. What does he do after all these?

He hails them when they illegally invade other countries and describes their victims as terrorists.

He attacks anything that his white masters attack without regards for critical reasoning.

He supports anyone that resists slavery or subjucation from his Western overlords.

I weep

Oops what a sad story with a nice ending..
Your race card is getting boring..
Look up the Islamic slave trade. Ottoman moslems raided Southern Europe for decades. The raped the women killed the men and enslaved the children. They occupied Spain for about 800 years. The Islamic slave trade lasted longer was more brutal and took more slaves than any other in history...They enslaved millions of white europeans as well as africans and lasted for around 1300 years..you didn't blame them?
But any little thing you bring your history and start disturbing everyone..

Throughout history every race has had slavery... Blacks in Africa captured slaves from other tribes and created the slave markets...
Even today there are a larger number of sex slaves and other humans being trafficked for whatever reason than ever before in history...you still didn't blame Blacks? but your problem is colonial masters..
Keep crying here while you keep hyping your corrupt African leaders..you will never address your leaders instead keep blaming white..boy it's getting boring.. stop blaming white for your problems after how many years..

FERNANDEZISBACK:
What do you expect from a remote that's being controlled by putin the bloody monster?
Putin should keep sending his thousands of army to Ukraine .. they will never ever survive and achieve their evil motive against Ukraine and the world...
A bully and evil should be wiped out of earth.. this will serve as a lesson to any upcoming dictator terrorist planning to disturb the world's peace..thy shalt be cut off by the mighty hands of the great America..

Even buhari no do pass you
Abeg try rest
No be you dy even fight dy war sef, but if person see you e go be as if na you dy frontline.

Ok

FERNANDEZISBACK:

Oops what a sad story with a nice ending..
Your race card is getting boring..
Look up the Islamic slave trade. Ottoman moslems raided Southern Europe for decades. The raped the women killed the men and enslaved the children. They occupied Spain for about 800 years. The Islamic slave trade lasted longer was more brutal and took more slaves than any other in history...They enslaved millions of white europeans as well as africans and lasted for around 1300 years..you didn't blame them?
But any little thing you bring your history and start disturbing everyone..

Throughout history every race has had slavery... Blacks in Africa captured slaves from other tribes and created the slave markets...
Even today there are a larger number of sex slaves and other humans being trafficked for whatever reason than ever before in history...you still didn't blame Blacks? but your problem is colonial masters..
Keep crying here while you keep hyping your corrupt African leaders..you will never address your leaders instead keep blaming white..boy it's getting boring.. stop blaming white for your problems after how many years..

Arabs and Muslims committed many crimes which I blame them for, and that's exactly why I believe Saudi Arabia and UAE are terrorist regimes even though I'm a muslim. I don't go about licking their asses and overlooking their crimes unlike you who justify anything those pale criminals do (especially Israel).


Anyway, I remain a big fan of Putin and Lukashenko as they curb NATO threat from Ukraine.

Crayfish09:



Arabs and Muslims committed many crimes which I blame them for, and that's exactly why I believe Saudi Arabia and UAE are terrorist regimes even though I'm a muslim. I don't go about licking their asses and overlooking their crimes unlike you who justify anything those pale criminals do (especially Israel).


Anyway, I remain a big fan of Putin and Lukashenko as they curb NATO threat from Ukraine.

The same energy you put on them should be directed at your leaders..
Stop the race card it won't change nothing.. take responsibility now..

Turkey, Germany and UK have USA nuclear bombs hosted on their lands as a member of NATO
Belarus is a member of CTSO, Russia can put Nuclear there.

FERNANDEZISBACK:
What do you expect from a remote that's being controlled by putin the bloody monster?
Putin should keep sending his thousands of army to Ukraine .. they will never ever survive and achieve their evil motive against Ukraine and the world...
A bully and evil should be wiped out of earth.. this will serve as a lesson to any upcoming dictator terrorist planning to disturb the world's peace..thy shalt be cut off by the mighty hands of the great America..

Are you a Nigerian?

I am surprised oh, you getting out of hand oh.

FERNANDEZISBACK:
What do you expect from a remote that's being controlled by putin the bloody monster?
Putin should keep sending his thousands of army to Ukraine .. they will never ever survive and achieve their evil motive against Ukraine and the world...
A bully and evil should be wiped out of earth.. this will serve as a lesson to any upcoming dictator terrorist planning to disturb the world's peace..thy shalt be cut off by the mighty hands of the great America..

So much Emptiness and dullness in one post.