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Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 26 January 2025 under the terms of the constitution.The president is directly elected to serve a five-year term.. The elections took place in an authoritarian context where the government of president Alexander Lukashenko has repressed the political opposition, banned opposition candidates from contesting the election, and banned or censored ...
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule with a massive win in a presidential election that Western governments have rejected as a sham, according to preliminary results on ...
The last time Belarus held a presidential election in 2020, Lukashenko claimed a landslide victory with more than 80% of the vote. The opposition cried foul, claiming that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya ...
MINSK (Reuters) -Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko was on track to extend his 31-year rule with 87.6% of the vote in a presidential election on Sunday, according to an exit poll broadcast on ...
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Ongoing: Belarusian involvement in Russian invasion of Ukraine; Belarus–European Union border crisis 26 January – 2025 Belarusian presidential election [ 1 ] Holidays
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 European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has characterised this presidential election in Belarus as a "blatant affront to democracy". Not that Alexander Lukashenko seems to care.