FILE PHOTO: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko visits a polling station during a presidential election in Minsk, Belarus, August 9, 2020. Sergei Gapon/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
KYIV (Reuters) - Veteran President Alexander Lukashenko launched a Belarusian "People's Assembly" on Thursday, inviting 2,700 people to discuss political reform in what opponents dismissed as a sham exercise to help him to cling to power.
Lukashenko, a former Soviet collective farm manager, has ruled Belarus since 1994 but faced an unprecedented wave of street protests since a presidential election last August that the opposition says was blatantly rigged.
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