• Belarus held a carefully planned election throughout the weekend. The opposition and the European Union rejected the farce. The authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has been in power for more than 30 years.
• The 2020 election in Belarus was also called fake with different politics, which caused unprecedented protests in the country for several months.
• Lukashenko has been in power since 1994, and relies on the subsidies and political support of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the latter has helped him survive in the 2020 protests.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko (Alexander Lukashenko) In the weekend election of careful planning, he and the European Union rejected a farce.

The Central Election Committee announced earlier on Monday that Lukashenko won the election with nearly 87 % of the votes in a campaign, and four token challengers praised his rule.

Many members of the country’s political opposition, many of them were proud of being imprisoned or exiled abroad by Lukashenko’s freedom of speech and freedom of speech. Like the activity, this triggered several months of protests, which were unprecedented in the protests. 9 million people.

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Since then, more than 65,000 people have been arrested, and thousands of people have been beaten, which has brought condemnation and sanctions in the West.

The European Union rejected Sunday voting, thinking that it was illegal and threatened new sanctions.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that the election has no choice to choose voters, marking that “this is a painful day for all people who are eager for freedom and democracy.”

Igor Karpenko, the head of the Central Committee of the Republic of Belarus, one -fifth of his colleagues at the left of his colleagues at Minsk, Minsk, Belarus on January 2025, 2025 Essence (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)

In an article on X, she said: “They have no freedom, fair elections, and no fear and arbitrary life, but have experienced daily oppression, oppression and human rights violations.”

Lukashenko has been in power since 1994, and has ruled the country with iron fist. He has always rely on subsidy and political support Russian President Vladimir PutinHe himself worked in 25 years, which helped him survive in 2020 protests.

Lukashenko allowed Moscow to use the country’s territory to invade Ukraine in 2022, and later presided over some Russian tactical nuclear weapons.

Putin called Lukashenko on Monday to congratulate his “convincing victory”. Chinese President Xi Jinping also congratulated.

Some observers believe that Lukashenko is worried that these large -scale demonstrations are repeated in economic trouble and Ukrainian battles. Therefore, it was voted in January. At that time, few people wanted to fill the street again instead of in August not Hold.

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Leading opponents fled abroad or were thrown into prison. Auditers said the country has nearly 1,300 political prisoners, including the Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski, the founder of the Viasna Human Rights Center.

Since July, Lukashenko has pardoned more than 250 people. At the same time, the authorities tried to revoke the objections by arresting the raids of hundreds of relatives and friends against politicians.

Opposition leader SVIATLANA TSIKhanouskaya, Who escaped Belarus Under the pressure of challenging Lukashenko in the challenge of Lukashenko in 2020, he condemned the election as “ignorant farce” and urged voters to remove everyone in the voting.