US EditionBelarus Election Condemned as 'Sham' Amid Lukashenko's Continued Rule
- Alexander Lukashenko won the Belarusian presidential election with 86.82% of the vote, according to the Central Election Commission Chairman Igor Karpenko at a press conference on January 26.
- The election was condemned as a sham by the opposition and the European Union, similar to the disputed 2020 election that sparked mass protests.
- Opposition leader-in-exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya called the election a senseless farce and urged voters to cross off all candidates on the ballot.
- The European Parliament and other international observers rejected the election outcome, citing widespread repression and lack of genuine competition.
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So pro-Russia Lukashenko has been elected again. What now?
It’s that time again — a new Belarusian presidential election, accompanied by an all too familiar cavalcade of denunciations by Western officials and politicians. Belarus’ strongman President Aleksandr Lukashenko secured his seventh term with an expected 87.6% of the vote, extending his three decades-long rule by another five years. European leaders are all but certain to repair to their time-honored tradition of demanding Lukashenko’s ouster wh…
Belarus Opposition and Western Leaders Reject Election Result That Extends Strongman’s Rule
Belarus’ opposition activists and Western officials on Monday denounced an orchestrated election that extends the more than three-decade rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. The country’s exiled opposition leader called the result “sheer nonsense.” The Central Election Commission declared that Lukashenko won Sunday’s election with nearly 87% of the vote after a campaign in which four token challengers on the ballot all praised h…
Dictator Ruling Belarus Since 1994 Stuns The World Yet Again
Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has once again clung to power, winning an election widely denounced by Western leaders as a mockery of democracy. According to the Central Election Committee, Lukashenko secured a staggering 86.8% of the vote, with turnout just shy of 87%. But with opposition leaders either jailed or exiled and no credible challengers on the ballot, critics say the outcome was predetermined.Not a single independent obser…
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