As anticipated, incumbent President Alexander Lukashenka was re-elected for a seventh time period in Belarus’s January 26 presidential election. In accordance with the official outcomes, the autocrat received 86.2 % of the vote. Of his 4 rivals – all roughly near the regime – none acquired greater than 3.21 %. The turnout was 85.7 %.
Each the Belarusian opposition in exile and the member states of the European Union – with the notable exception of Hungary — contested the vote, which they described as “neither free nor democratic”. The EU denounced the “relentless and unprecedented stage of repression” within the nation, the place human rights are flouted and press freedom is non-existent, which “disadvantaged the electoral means of any legitimacy”.
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