Authoritarian Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has provided another victory in the elections marked by the Western governments as false.
On Monday, the Central Election Committee stated that Lukashenko won 86.8% of the vote and that the turnout was almost 87%.
There were four more names in the newsletter – carefully selected so as not to present any problems for the current leadership – but no reliable applicants were allowed to participate in the elections because all opposition figures are in prison or exile abroad.
No independent observers also controlled the vote.
EU foreign policy chief Kaj Kalas said the election was a brazen attack on democracy, while German Foreign Minister Analen Boerbak posted on X that “people of Belarus had no choice.”
Meanwhile, Kremlin’s press secretary Dmitry Pesko said that President Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia since 2000, has congratulated his close ally Lukashenko for his “solid victory”.
Pesko said that Moscow believed that the Belarusian elections are “absolutely legitimate, well organized, transparent elections” and the voices that sound from the West were slapped. “
The leaders of China, Venezuela and Pakistan also suggested meeting Lukashenko.
Opposition leader of the expelled Belarusian Svetlana Tikhonovskaya refused the election as “another political farce”.
In the 2020 elections, she demanded the victory she was in prison.
Lukashenka mistakenly believed that Tikhonovsky would not have any problem for him, but after she seemed to receive great support, she was expelled from the country.
Now there is no opposition in Belarus, which also closed all its independent media.
On Sunday night, Lukashenko told Steve Rosenberg BBC that his opponents chose a “prison” or exile.
“We have never made anyone out of the country,” he said, adding that “he couldn’t care whether our elections recognize (the West).”
This will be the seventh term of Lukashenko in power. He has ruled Belarus since 1994.
