The leader of the Belarusia and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his referee for 31 years on Monday after electoral officials announced the winner of the presidential elections that Western governments rejected as shame.
“You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have been elected president,” Igor Carbinko, head of the country's central election committee, told a press conference in the early hours of Monday.
Lukashenko, who did not face any serious challenge from the other four candidates in the poll, took 86.8 % of the votes, according to the initial results published at the expense of the official telegram, the Central Elections Committee.
European politicians said that the vote was not free or fair because the independent media is banned in the former Soviet Republic, and all the leading opposition figures were imprisoned or forced to flee from abroad.
The Belarus people had no choice. It is a bitter day for all those who yearn for freedom and democracy.
Electoral officials said that the turnout was 85.7 % in the elections, as 6.9 million people were qualified to vote.
When asked about his opponents' prison, Lukashenko told a press conference on Sunday that they had chosen their fate.
“Some chose prison, some chose” exile “, she says. He said at a rebel press conference that lasted for more than four hours.
A close ally of President Vladimir Putin, who allowed the Russian leader to use his country as a starting area to send the forces to Ukraine in 2022, Lukashenko defended his imprisonment from the dissidents and announced: “I do not give the curse of the West.”
Sviatlaana Tsikhanouskaya, the Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, told Reuters this week that Lukashenko has designed his re -election as part of “dictators' rituals”. The demonstrations against him took place on Sunday in Warsaw and other cities of eastern Europe.
Lukashenko ignored the criticism as meaningless and said that he does not care whether the West had confessed to the elections.
Putin is an ally
The European Union and the United States said that they did not recognize him as a legitimate leader of Belarus after he used its security forces to crush the mass protests in the wake of the recent elections in 2020, when Western governments supported Sighanskaya that Lukashinko had forged the number and the chicks of victory.
The Human Rights Group, which was banned as an “extremist” organization in Belarus, says there are still about 1,250 political prisoners in his prisons, although Lukashenko released more than 250 last year for what he called humanitarian lands.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that Belarus “issued an innocent American”, called Anastassia Nuhfer.
No other details were given about the case, which was not announced.
The war in Ukraine Lukashenko has been tightly linked than ever to Putin, and Russian tactical nuclear weapons are now being deployed in Belarus.
If the conflict is over, political analysts say it is likely to seek to restore its relations with the West in an attempt to obtain sanctions.
