'We are working on a plan of what to do in case it happens,' Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told Newsweek of a sudden power vacuum in Minsk.
and was the only leader of the Russian-led Commonwealth of Independent States that did not lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
"It showed us that there is a necessity to work out a very fast reaction just in case this happens," Tsikhanouskaya toldof the prospect of Lukashenko's loss of power, whether through death, incapacity, coup, or voluntary handover of control. "We have to have an approximate plan of how to act. Still, there are discussions among society [about] how to do it. Through negotiations?... It will be chaos in government, and maybe it will be a moment to launch negotiations with them. Or, some people think that nothing can be changed without more confrontational methods."
"Now we have debates among our experts as to whether we should do this simultaneously or first try negotiation, and then [pivot to alternatives] if not. But then time may be wasted," she said.
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