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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]
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.
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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]
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.
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Lawmakers in Belarus on Wednesday set the next presidential election for Jan. 26, a vote almost certain to extend the three-decade rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko, who has suppressed all political dissent.
The vote further cemented the 30-year rule of President Alexander Lukashenko, who declared his intention to seek another five-year term in a presidential election next year.
This is the first election in Belarus since the contentious 2020 presidential vote that handed Lukashenko his sixth term in office and triggered an unprecedented wave of mass demonstrations.