Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 26 January 2025. The president is directly elected to serve a five-year term.. The elections took place in an authoritarian context where the government of president Alexander Lukashenko has repressed the political opposition, banned opposition candidates from contesting the election, and banned or …

2 days ago · Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western ...

4 days ago · The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of his three decades in power. “Needed!” the posters proclaim beneath a photo of Lukashenko, his hands clasped together.

2 days ago · The EU, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand issued a joint statement condemning “the sham presidential elections in Belarus” and the Lukashenko government’s human rights violations. “No election can be considered free, fair or in line with international standards when it is held in a climate of ongoing repression, marked by a clampdown ...

3 days ago · “You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have elected a president,” Igor Karpenko, head of the commission, told a news conference. Election officials said turnout in Sunday’s vote ...

3 days ago · [1/6] Preliminary results of the presidential election are displayed on a screen at the headquarters of Belarus' Central Election Commission during a press conference, in Minsk, Belarus January 27 ...

3 days ago · Belarus’s president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, enters a voting booth at a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus, on Sunday.

4 days ago · President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, has been making signs of reaching out to the West. He is all but certain to win an election on Sunday.

4 days ago · Item 1 of 8 Belarusian President and presidential candidate Alexander Lukashenko speaks at a press conference after casting his vote in the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus January 26, 2025.

6 days ago · The last time Belarus staged a presidential election in 2020, authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner with 80% of the vote. That triggered cries of fraud, months of protests and a harsh crackdown with thousands of arrests.. Not wanting to risk such unrest again by those opposing his three decades of iron-fisted rule, Lukashenko advanced the timing of the 2025 election ...