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When the authorities declared a landslide victory in the elections, people took to the streets to fight OMON. But Lukashenko’s forces drove him out in a matter of hours with rubber bullets, gas grenades, and even serving the crowd.
We talked more about the presidential elections in Belarus and the situation with our neighbors with the political scientist Linas Kojala.
How to evaluate what is really happening in Belarus?
The official results are certainly not surprising. This was to be expected, as evidenced by the only essentially state poll that said Lukashenko had not lost popularity.
But perhaps no one doubted that those figures are completely unrealistic, that the results are falsified and that Lukashenko probably would not have won those elections, or at least certainly not by such a big difference. But we will never really know.
In some neighborhoods or counties, it shows that even more than 100 percent. voted for him. So what assumptions can we make? Maybe there are some observer data?
There are very few international observers. Basically, they were not allowed to enter the country, which is further proof that the elections were not transparent.
We have some data from abroad, that is, when Belarusians voted in Vilnius and other cities, where Tichanovskaya defeated Lukashenko with overwhelming results. Similar data is available from various districts in Minsk, where the protocols have been leaked, are online. There it can also be seen that Tikhanovskaya got more (votes – Past ed.) Than Lukashenko.
But we will probably not see such a general result for the whole country, it will only be declared that the elections were not transparent, were not democratic and did not meet Western standards.
We invite you to watch the entire conversation with political scientist L. Kojala in the video above.
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