Former contender for the presidency of Belarus demanded to recognize Tikhanovskaya as the head of Belarus

Former candidate into the Belarusian President Valery Tsepkalo told the reporters that the opposition will demand that the international community recognize Svetlana Tikhanovskaya as head of state.

“Naturally, recognition of Tikhanovskaya as president (of Belarus) is what we will demand from the international community”, – Tsepkalo said by phone.

He also stressed that the opposition intends to demand an amnesty for all political prisoners and those who were arrested on “economic” charges.

“There are a lot of such people, we have the largest number of people in Europe for economic reasons”, – Tsepkalo said.