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Lukashenko 30 years in power, Belarus holds presidential elections today
2025-01-26 08:58:05 / BOTA
Polls opened in Belarus today for presidential elections, where self-proclaimed autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 and in the absence of a real opposition, awaits his seventh term.
As of 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT), voters have been heading to polling stations.
During his sixth term, Alexander Lukashenko has completely stifled all dissent, following unprecedented protests targeting him in 2020, and since then he has moved closer to Moscow, to the point of giving the Russian army its territory to invade Ukraine in 2022.
Meanwhile, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has described the presidential elections in Belarus as "sham".
The result of the vote is certain, with authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko set to receive a seventh term.
"Lukashenko has been clinging to power for 30 years," Kallas said in a post on X.
"He will re-name himself in another fake election. This is a blatant insult to democracy," she wrote.
"Lukashenko has no legitimacy," Kallas stressed.
About 6.9 million citizens are eligible to vote in the former Soviet republic, closely linked to Moscow, but their vote is not considered to be very important.
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