Alexander Lukashenko wins his seventh state in a row in the “sham” elections in Belarus Election news

Electoral officials say Lukashenko received 86.8 percent of the votes amid charges that the vote was not free or outward.

The Belarusian leader has long been Alexander Lukashenko The winner has been announced Presidential electionsTo ensure a seventh consecutive presidential period, according to the country’s electoral commission.

Lukashenko, whose four opponents in the voting were loyal to him and praised his 30 -year -old rule, received 86.8 percent of the votes, according to the preliminary results published by the Central Elections Committee on its official account on Telegram on Monday.

“You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have been elected as president,” the chairman of the committee, Agor Carbinko, told a press conference.

Elections officials said that the participation rate in the Sunday elections amounted to 85.7 percent, and that about 6.9 million people are entitled to vote.

The Belarusian leader won all the presidential elections Since 1994In opinion polls rejected by his opponents, Western governments and human rights groups, describing them as “false”.

A convincing victory

But Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Lukashenko, saying that the elections showed that he had “undoubted” support from the people.

Putin said, according to a statement by the Kremlin: “Your convincing victory in the elections is clearly witnessing your supreme political authority and the undoubted support for the state policy pursued by Belarus.”

“You are always a welcome guest and dear on Russian soil. As agreed upon, I look forward to seeing you soon in Moscow.

The war in Ukraine Lukashenko has more comply on more than ever, and now Russian tactical nuclear weapons are spread in Belarus.

The official media in Beijing reported that Chinese leader Xi Jinping also congratulated Lukashenko.

Xinhua said that Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to Lukashenko on the occasion of his re -election as President of Belarus.

“There is no choice”

Other politicians, especially in Europe, said that the vote was neither free nor an outrage because the independent media was banned in the country and all prominent opposition figures were imprisoned or forced to search for exile abroad.

“The people of Belarus have no choice. It is a bitter day for all those who yearn for freedom and democracy.”

“More than 1,200 people in Belarus are still innocent because they had the courage to speak publicly.”

The last presidential elections in the country ended in 2020 with protests in the country, which is unprecedented in the history of the country with a population of nine million people. The opposition and Western countries accused Lukashenko of falsifying the elections and imposing sanctions on it.

In response, his government launched a large -scale suppression campaign, which resulted in the imprisonment of more than 1,000 people, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Alice Benaliatki, and founder of the Viasna Human Rights Center.

In response to a question about his opposition prison, Lukashenko said at a press conference on Sunday that they had chosen their fate.

Some chose prison and some chose exile as you say. He said in a press conference that lasted for more than four hours.

Lukashenko, the opposition leader, Sephanana Zikhanskaya, told Reuters news agency that Lukashenko plans to re -election as part of the “dictators’ rituals.”