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"Madam President, we often use excessive superlatives when talking about dictatorial regimes, but it is difficult to do so in the case of Belarus. Here is a Caligulan tyranny in the heart of Europe and on the borders of the European Union. A lot of this report today focused on the application of the death penalty. I am more concerned by the naked autocracy of a system where, to give one example, at the last presidential election, there were nine candidates, one of whom was elected, one of whom was left alone and the other seven of whom were imprisoned. It is extraordinary that we have a situation where people are habitually incarcerated for saying inconvenient things.
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I believe in the national independence of countries, but we also are sovereign countries and we have our own right to take a position on the democratisation of neighbouring countries. Belarus is also in our ‘near-abroad’. I think we should be proud of the fact that in this Parliament, and particularly in our group, colleagues from the PIS in Poland, colleagues like Mr Migalski, and British Conservatives have been in the front line pushing for the democratisation and freedom of that country. Those who believe in a pluralist multi-party system there should know that they have friends."@en1
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