“Come on, Goodbye, Mikhailovna”: Experts Explain Why Lukashenka Replaced Yarmoshyna with Karpenka

“There will be even more tightening of the screws in the electoral process”
ANDREI KAZAKEVICH (https://gazetaby.media/post/kazakevich-sleduet-ozhidat-eshhe-bolshego-kontroly/181854/)
Director of the Political Sphere Institute, doctor of political sciences
— Rumors that Yarmoshyna was supposed to resign had been circulating for a long time.

She herself had already asked for this.

The past year was associated with great stress for her.

In effect, the system that had been built since the late 1990s, including with her assistance, broke down, and much went out of control.

I believe there was a long discussion in the corridors of power about whether she should nevertheless be replaced, and by whom.

The choice fell on the former minister of education, Ihar Karpenka.

He had already had influence over a large part of the members of election commissions, who were educators.

His appointment indicates that the emphasis will be placed on strengthening discipline.

Karpenka, as is well known, is something of a headliner, a person who is openly negative toward the opposition.

A person who has never in any way demonstrated democratic views.

In the education system he pursued a very hard ideological line.

Given that a significant part of election commissions is formed from lecturers and teachers, his organizational experience may be useful in order to mobilize them under new, more difficult conditions.

The situation with this appointment looks precisely like an administrative strengthening of election commissions.

One should expect even greater secrecy, even greater control over the voting process, even greater control over the selection of commission members so that there are no problems with them, and other administrative procedures for tightening the screws in the electoral process.

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