section_path: Ideology and program
section_name: Ideology and program
paragraph_text: Ideology and program
  
  Belaya Rus supports the presidency of Alexander Lukashenko, who has been the country's first and only president since 1994. At its inaugural party congress, Belaya Rus described itself as "an association of supporters of the first president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, which seeks to preserve and develop his ideas and principles of building a sovereign Belarusian state". The party is also pro-Russia and has stated Belarusian energy independence as one of its long-term goals.
  
  German civil lawyer Wolfram Nordsieck describes the party as centrist, statist, and agrarianist. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace described the party as "relatively centrist".