A presidential contender who says he fled Belarus because he feared for his freedom and custody of his children has told Reuters the country's opposition is pinning its hopes on a candidate he characterised as a latter-day Joan of Arc.
MOSCOW - A presidential contender who says he fled Belarus because he feared for his freedom and custody of his children has told Reuters the country’s opposition is pinning its hopes on a candidate he characterised as a latter-day Joan of Arc.
Authorities disqualified Tsepkalo, 55, from the race after saying they suspected some of the signatures he had collected in his support had been forged, an allegation he denies. “If I would be imprisoned, then I cannot speak openly about what is happening in Belarus,” the former diplomat told Reuters at a cafe in central Moscow. “Lukashenko’s idea was to split us all and to destroy us one by one and he really did that.”
Tikhanouskaya has joined forces with Tsepkalo’s wife Veronika and a female campaign team member from another camp to try to unseat Lukashenko, who has dismissed women as being too fragile to run Belarus.“Lukashenko couldn’t expect that we would be able to organise behind one person who appears to be for Belarus society a symbol, like the symbol of the French resistance movement Joan of Arc,” said Tsepkalo.
Tsepkalo described how he had taken a 700-km minibus ride to Moscow from Minsk, the Belarusian capital, with his seven-year-old twins, with only a small suitcase and plastic bags filled with their belongings.
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