The preliminary results of the presidential elections in Belarus have become known: Lukashenka is in the lead
The head of the Central Election Commission of Belarus Ihor Karpenko announced that the President of Belarus Oleksandr Lukashenko won 86.82% of the votes in the elections. This is reported by BelTA.
Other candidates received the following results: Oleksandr Khizhnyak, head of the Republican Party of Labor and Justice, – 1.2%; Oleh Haydukevych, head of the Liberal Democratic Party, – 1.8%; Anna Kanopatska, entrepreneur, – 1.6%; Serhiy Sirankov, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, – 2.7%.
Lukashenko has been the president of Belarus since 1994 and is running for a seventh term. Two of the four other candidates recognized his victory even before the start of the main voting phase.
The Central Election Commission of Belarus declared the elections as held. According to the agency, 5,325 polling stations were operating in the country, including 207 in hospitals, sanatoriums, rest homes and other places of temporary stay, as well as 12 in military units.
The CEC noted that 486 international observers from 52 countries and 331 foreign journalists from 23 countries observed the elections in Belarus.
