Alexander Lakhakhenko won the seventh straight term in the ‘Sham’ Belarus election news

Election officials say Lakashnco received 86.8 percent of the votes amid the allegations that the vote was neither independent nor fair.

According to the country’s election body, for a long time, Belarusian leader Alexander Lakhakhenko has been declared the winner of a disputed presidential election, who achieves a seventh straightforward term.

Lusashenko, whose four opponents on the ballot were loyal to him and praised his 30 -year rule, took 86.8 percent of the votes on Monday, according to the preliminary results published by the Central Election Commission by the Central Election Commission.

“You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have chosen a President,” the head of the Commission said at a news conference.

Election officials said that the voting in Sunday’s vote was 85.7 percent, with about 6.9 million people eligible to vote.

The Belarusian leader has won every presidential election since 1994, his opponents, Western governments and rights groups have rejected as “Sham”.

‘Explain the victory’

But Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Lusashenko and said that the election revealed that he had “undoubtedly” support of the people.

According to a statement by the Kremlin, “Your confident victory in the election clearly testifies to your high political rights and the state policy Belarus’s undoubtedly supporting the population.”

“You are always a welcome and dear guest on Russian earth. Being agreed, I am eager to see you in Moscow soon. ,

The war in Ukraine has tied Lusashenko tightly to Putin, and the Russian strategic nuclear weapons are now stationed in Belarus.

Beijing’s state media reported that Chinese leader Xi Jinping also congratulated Lusashenko.

State news agency Xinhua said, “Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to Lakashnco on his election as the chairman of Belarus.”

‘No option’

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

“The people of Belarus had no choice. This is a bitter day for all that have long been for freedom and democracy, “Posted on X by German Foreign Minister Analena Berbock.

“More than 1,200 people in Belarus are imprisoned innocent because they dared to speak.”

In 2020, the final presidential election of the country ended with nationwide protests, which was unprecedented in the history of the country of nine million people. Opposition and Western countries accused Lakshhenko of rigging and banning elections.

In response, his government launched a widespread rift, imprisoning more than 1,000 people, including the founder of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Els Bioleteski, the Viana Human Rights Center.

When asked about the jelling of his opponents, Lakashnco told a news conference on Sunday that he had chosen his luck.

“Some chose prison, some chose exile, as you say. We did not get anyone out of the country,” he told at a gambling news conference that lasted for more than four hours.

Exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told the Reuters News Agency that Lusashenko elected as part of the “ritual for dictators”.