Alexandr Lukashenko will continue in power by 2030
Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko was a relevant Sunday for a seventh term in the former Soviet Republic, with 87.60% of the votes, according to the first official polls in the ballot box.
Thus, Lukashenko will continue in power by 2030, while the vote against all was the second most supported option by the Belarusians at the polls with 5.1% of the votes, according to the committee of Juvenile Organizations, author of the poll, on public television.
The third in the race was the communist Sergei Sirankov, who openly supported the reelection of the Belarussian leader and added 2.7% of the votes.
Following are Oleg Gaidukevich, with 1.8%, lawyer Anna Kanopatskaya, with 1.6%, and Republican Alexandr Jizhniak, with 1.2%.
The opposition in exile, which does not recognize Lukashenko as legitimate president, had asked his supporters to mark “against all” in the electoral bulletins, considering it the only possible form of peaceful protest.
Kanopatskaya, who has been applied for five years, is the only one of the Belarussian presidential candidates who dared to publicly criticize Lukashenko’s management, although democratic opposition considers it a “KGB candidate.”
Speaking to EFE, Kanopatskaya assured this week that the authoritarian model Lukashenko imposed after reaching power in 1994 is sold out and it is time for him to renounce the position to reform the political and economic system.
According to the latest Central Electoral Commission (CEC) data, less than two hours from the ballot box had voted more than 81% of nearly seven million Belarusians with voting entitled.
