This painting captures the moment when Alexander Lukashenko is not clinging to his chair with blue fingers.
The 2020 elections
On 9 August 2020 the next elections were held. On 14 August the official results were announced: 80.1% of voters' votes, according to the Central Election Commission, were cast for Lukashenko.
The elections were rigged. The disagreeing people of Belarus took to the streets en masse, but the rallies were brutally suppressed by the OMON riot police. Flash-bang grenades and rubber bullets were used against the protesters.
November 2019.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told journalists at one of the polling stations in Minsk that he would take part in the upcoming presidential election. At the same time, he promised not to take offence at citizens if they did not support him.
"If I feel that you are categorically against it, of course I will be upset, but nevertheless you must reject my candidacy at the elections. And I promised that I would not hold on to the chair with blue fingers. Believe me, it is not exactly a soft chair"
