The main voting day for the presidential election has begun in Belarus. The next presidential elections were supposed to take place no later than July 20, 2025, but they were postponed to January 26. This was reported by the BBC on Sunday, January 26. In the summer of 2020, the voting, the results of which the opposition did not recognize, entailed mass protests, rigidly suppressed under the leadership of the self -proclaimed Alexander Lukashenko. Now, in addition to Lukashenko, who has been president for 30 years, four more technical candidates are taking part in the elections. So, Oleg Gaidukevich, Sergey Sirankov, Anna Kanapatskaya and Alexander Hizhnyak will also compete for the post of head of state.. Elections in Belarus are being held in conditions of political crisis, large-scale repression and, according to international organizations, are not free and undemocratic. There are no officially registered opposition parties or independent public organizations left in Belarus, the report says.. The governments of several Western countries have already announced that they will not recognize the results of these elections.. Recall that the CEC of Belarus registered five candidates in the presidential election. Earlier it became known that Belarusians abroad will be deprived of the right to vote in the presidential election. In Lithuania, they called on the world to react to the elections in Belarus Novini VID in Telegram that WhatsApp. PIDS INSIALLY OUR CANEL HTTPS: // T. Me/korrespondentnet ts WhatsApp Author: 1.