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Another DICTATOR Re-Elected -Belarus President, Putin Ally, Wins FIXED Election
Belarus President DICTATOR Lukashenko ''Wins'' Seventh Term in Election Rejected as SHAM
Putin Ally Comfortably Wins Vote That EU and US Said Was NOT Fair
The Guardian 28 JAN 2025
Belarusian dissident fighters in Ukraine risk sadistic torture by Lukashenko regime
SADISTIC Lukashenko who has been in power in Belarus since 1994, wins seventh term as Belarus president in election rejected as sham...
Lukashenko says he has '''no regrets''' about Belarus helping Russia to invade Ukraine
Alexander Lukashenko has secured a seventh five-year term as Belarusian president in a resounding election victory that western governments have rejected as a sham.
Lukashenko won 86.8% of the vote in Sundays election, according to results published by the countrys electoral commission.
You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have elected a president, the commissions head Igor Karpenko told a press conference in the early hours of Monday, according to Russian state media.
The US and the EU said in the run-up to the election that it could not be free or fair because independent media are banned in Belarus and all leading opposition figures have been jailed or forced to flee abroad. The close ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had earlier defended his jailing of dissidents and declared: '''I don?t give a damn about the west.'''
Kaja Kallas, the EUs top diplomat, on Saturday called the election a '''sham''' and said Lukashenko doesn?t have any legitimacy.
The electoral commission said turnout was 85.7% in the election, in which 6.9 million people were eligible to vote. An earlier exit poll broadcast on state television projected that Lukashenko would take 87.6% of the vote.
The people of Belarus had no choice. It is a bitter day for all those who long for freedom and democracy, said Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister.
The Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski expressed mock surprise that only 87.6% of the electorate appeared to have backed Lukashenko. '''Will the rest fit inside the prisons?''' he posted.
Lukashenko ? a 70-year-old former collective farm boss ? suppressed mass protests against his rule in 2020 and allowed Moscow to use Belarusian territory to invade Ukraine in 2022. The opposition and the west said Lukashenko had rigged the last presidential vote and authorities cracked down on demonstrations, with more than a thousand people still jailed.
All of Lukashenkos political opponents are either in prison ? some held incommunicado ? or in exile along with tens of thousands of Belarusians who have fled since 2020.
SADISTIC Lukashenko said on Sunday that his opponents were behind bars or abroad out of choice. Some chose prison, some exile,he said.
If it is prison then its those who opened their mouths too widely.
Most people in Belarus have only distant memories of life in the landlocked country before Lukashenko, who was 39 when he won the first national election in Belarus since it gained independence from the Soviet Union.
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