The appearance of voters in the election of the President of Belarus exceeded 86%

In the election of the President of Belarus, which took place on October 11, 86.75% of voters voted, according to the website of the Central Election Commission of the republic. The counting of the votes has not yet been completed, but the CEC has already understood that there would be no second round - the current head of state Alexander Lukashenko wins in the first round.

In Minsk, according to the Central Election Commission, 65.58% of voters voted for the current president, while the rest of the candidates received less than 7%. In the Brest region, Lukashenko scored 86.27%, they told the CEC.

Information from other areas at the time of writing a note on the website of the Central Election Commission is absent. Earlier, the ec-polles of various organizations showed that more than 80% of the plots voted for the president. To win the first round, he was enough to enlist the support of more than 50% of voters.

In the past elections in 2010, Lukashenko scored a little less than 80%. The voting day was marked by a mass action of the opposition’s protest in Minsk, suppressed by the police and internal troops. 22 people, including seven former presidential candidates, then took place suspects in the criminal case in organizing riots. This time, in the central square of Minsk, everything went much calmer.

In addition to Lukashenko, the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party Sergey Gaidukevich, a representative of the civil campaign “Talk to the truth” Tatyana Korotkevich, as well as the leader of the Belarusian Patriotic Party Nikolai Ulakhovich, claimed the post of head of the republic.

Lukashenko became president of Belarus in 1994. In 2005, Kondoliza Rice, who then held the post of Secretary of State, gave him the nickname "The Last European Dictator", which the media began to recall in the elections. To date, Lukashenko has been in power for not 11 years, as it was then, but 21 years old.