The Central Election Commission of Belarus said that Alaksandr Lukashenko became the winner of the President’s “election”, BelTA writes. According to the CEC, he scored 86.82% of the vote.
Propagandists from the state agency also published preliminary data on the number of votes for other candidates:.
Oleg Gaidukevich – 2.02%;
Anna Kanopatskaya - 1.86%;
Sergey Syrankov – 3.21%;
Alexander Hizhnyak - 1.74%;
against everyone - 3.60%.
The night before, Belarus announced exit poll data, according to which Lukashenko could get 87.6% of the votes. The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, reacted to such data online, hinting at the lack of transparency of the elections and reprisals against those who do not agree with the regime.
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This is already the seventh presidential term for Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus since 1994.. The so -called elections have already passed without international observers. Polling stations abroad also did not open.
The head of the EU diplomacy Kai Callas called the vote " She noted that “this is an egregious abuse of democracy,” and Lukashenko “has no legitimacy”. In response, Lukashenko said that he was “purple” whether Europe or other countries recognize the results of the Belarusian “elections”.
It should be noted that the official results of the “election” in 2020, according to which Lukashenko received 80% of the vote, caused a wave of protests in the country that lasted several months and accompanied by detentions and the use of force on the part of law enforcement.
Finally, the voting results were recognized only by a number of countries, including Russia, China, Kazakhstan. The countries of the European Union and Ukraine The results of the elections in Belarus in 2020 did not recognize.