Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature Svetlana Aleksievich refused to return to Belarus until the president is in power Alexander Lukashenko . This was reported on Friday, November 20, by RIA Novosti .
The writer said she plans to stay in Berlin until “until Lukashenka leaves”. Aleksievich added that she is not a politician and did not take the idea of becoming interim president seriously. “Politics need other abilities. I don’t have them,” she said.
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on August 9. CEC stated that Lukashenka, who ran for the sixth term, won 80 percent of the vote. This has sparked massive protests across the country, which have been going on for more than three months. The opposition has created a Coordination Council for the transfer of power, the presidium of which includes Aleksievich.
By the end of September, she remained the only member of the presidium who was at large on the territory of Belarus. The rest were either arrested or fled the country. September 9 Aleksievich reported that unknown people tried to get into her apartment, they came to support the writer European diplomats.
September 28, Aleksievich left to Germany. Her assistant argued that the departure was not related to the criminal proceedings opened in connection with the creation of the Coordination Council.