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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 had won every presidential election since 1994, with all but the first being deemed by international monitors as neither free nor fair. [1] Prior to the elections, independent ...
Ongoing: Belarusian involvement in Russian invasion of Ukraine; Belarus–European Union border crisis. 26 January – 2025 Belarusian presidential election: President Alexander Lukashenko is reelected for a seventh term with 87.6% of the vote. [1]
A presidential election was held in Belarus on 19 December 2010. [20] The election was originally planned for the beginning of 2011. However, the final date was set during an extraordinary session of the Belarusian National Assembly [ 21 ] on 14 September 2010.
January 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM. ... The last time Belarus held a presidential election in 2020, Lukashenko claimed a landslide victory with more than 80% of the vote.
There are times in history when countries are gripped by election fever. January 2025 in Belarus is not one of them. ... on the day the date of the presidential election was announced.
Lukashenko's current term expires next summer, but election officials said advancing the process to the beginning of the year would allow the president “to exercise his powers at the initial stage of strategic planning.” But Belarusian political analyst Valery Karbalevich gave a different reason for scheduling a vote earlier in the year.
The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner with 80% of the vote. That triggered cries of fraud, months of protests and a harsh crackdown with thousands of arrests.
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