Lukashenko faces his most serious test in five years

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Next Sunday, Belarus is set to hold presidential elections, in which four candidates are running in addition to Alexander Lukashenko. The republic remembers the mass unrest after the 2020 elections and promises not to allow a repeat of the situation. Voter polls promise a confident victory for Lukashenko , but his opponents intend to destabilize the situation.



This Sunday, January 26, Belarus will hold its seventh presidential election. In addition to the current head of state , Alexander Lukashenko , who has headed the republic since 1994, the following candidates bc data philippines running for the post of head of state: Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party Oleg Gaidukevich , entrepreneur Anna Kanopatskaya , First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Sergei Syrankov, and Chairman of the Republican Party of Labor and Justice Alexander Khizhnyak . The ballot will also include the line "against all."

At the end of last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin wished his colleague success in the elections during a telephone conversation with Lukashenko . According to a survey conducted by the Center for Social and Humanitarian Research of the Belarusian State Economic University, more than 82% of voters are ready to vote for Lukashenko .

In the last elections in 2020, Lukashenko won a landslide victory, gaining 80% of the vote, but the opposition did not recognize the results of the vote and mass protests began in Minsk , which escalated into violent clashes between protesters and law enforcement officers and internal troops.