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Seeking 7th term, Lukashenko projected to win by 87% votes
The Daily Guardian
|January 28, 2025
Lukashenko has been in power in Belarus since 1994 and is seeking a seventh term. The country's last presidential election in 2020 ended with nationwide protests,
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is set to extend his three-decade reign as exit polls show him winning the presidential elections -- which the West has called a 'sham' -- with 87.6 per cent of the votes, Al Jazeera reported citing an exit poll broadcast on state TV. Sunday's vote was the country's first presidential election since Lukashenko crushed mass protests against his government in 2020 and permitted Russia to use Belarusian territory for its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
This story is from the January 28, 2025 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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