MINSK, Belarus— A presidential election was under way Sunday in Belarus, where authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko faced no serious competition and was expected easily to win a fifth term. The opposition called for a boycott of the vote.
Even before polls opened in the former Soviet republic, however, the Central Election Commission announced that 36 percent of the 7 million registered voters had cast their ballots during five days of early voting.
Opposition leaders denounced the early voting as an ideal instrument for falsifying the result.
Lukashenko faced three nominal rivals in the election: the leaders of two pro-government parties, Sergei Gaidukevich and …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
