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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 has 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 ...
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 ...
Belarusians are voting in a closely-managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the one-man rule of Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 and Europe’s longest-serving leader.
Here's what to know about Belarus, its election and its relationship with Russia: ‘Europe’s last dictator' and his reliance on Russia. Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991. The Slavic nation of 9 million people is sandwiched between Russia and Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, the latter three all NATO members.
The EU's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said the election had been a blatant affront to democracy, while German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock posted on X that "the people of Belarus had ...
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]
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.
Belarus refused to allow monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to observe this year's parliamentary election for the first time in decades. Under the complete control of Lukashenko's government, voting booths for the first time didn't have privacy curtains, and voters were not allowed to take photographs of their ...