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Parliamentary and local elections logo (Russian-language version) Parliamentary elections were held in Belarus on 25 February 2024. [1] [2] [3] The country elected 110 deputies to the lower house of parliament (House of Representatives) and about 12,000 representatives of local councils.
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 26 January 2025. The president is directly elected to serve a five-year term.. Incumbent president Alexander Lukashenko has won every presidential election since 1994, with all but the first being deemed by international monitors as neither free nor fair. [1]
24 September – Jörg Dornau, a lawmaker for the far-right Alternative for Germany party in Saxony, is revealed to be using Belarusian political prisoners as labour by independent Belarusian news outlet Reform.news. [25] 27 September – President Lukashenko warns that Belarus will use nuclear weapons if attacked by the West. [26]
But according to a CIS election observation mission, the elections in Belarus conformed to international standards. [18] According to the official results the oppositional parties failed to gain any of the 110 available seats, all of which were given to parties and non-partisan candidates loyal to president Alexander Lukashenko. The Central ...
Belarus is an ally of Russia and allowed Moscow to use its territory to launch its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise) Show comments
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on Sunday, 9 August 2020. Early voting began on 4 August and ran until 8 August. [1]Incumbent Alexander Lukashenko was announced by the Central Election Commission (CEC) to have won a sixth term in office, crediting him with just over 80% of the vote. [2]
Belarus’ foreign minister arrived in North Korea on Tuesday as experts predicted that he and North Korean officials would discuss forming a trilateral anti-Western front also involving Russia.
[118] [119] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed regret at the questionable legitimacy of the official election results and the conflict that followed their announcement. He urged Belarus to refrain from violence and to initiate a wide, open dialogue between the government and the citizens.