Belaruso President Alexandr Lukashenko said this Sunday that it does not care that Western countries do not ooze the presidential elections of this January 26 in which the current leader aspires to his seventh mandate. The High EU representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, said this Saturday that it is an “electoral farce” and that the “self -proclamation” of Alexandr Lukashenko after the elections will be a “flagrant affront to democracy.”
“They recognize them or do not recognize them, it is a matter of taste. It gives me absolutely the same. The important thing is that the elections are recognized by the berousy, ”the president replied to the press after voting at a Minsk school. Regarding the recactions with the West, he said that Minsk “never” has refused to maintain them.
The High EU representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, said on Saturday that the self -proclamation of Alexandr Lukashenko as president of Belarusia after this Sunday’s elections will be a “flagrant affront to democracy” and that this has “no legitimacy” . The previous elections were no longer recognized by the EU representatives for not being “fair or free” or complying with international standards. The authorities have forbidden to photograph the ballots and hang images on social networks, which was what caused the mass protests against fraud in August 2020.
“Lukashenko has clung to power for 30 years. Tomorrow [por este domingo] It will proclaim again in another electoral farce. This constitutes a flagrant to democracy. Lukashenko has no legitimacy, ”wrote the head of European diplomacy in a message on social networks.
The president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, also sent this morning a message to the people of Belarusia to ask that she stay strong before Sunday’s presidential elections, while stressing the support of the EU and said that “the dictatorship will end” .
Lukashenko will face four candidates, of which the first three have even supported a victory of the current head of state: the communist Serguéi Sirankov; Republican Alexandr Jizhniak and the son of a historic Belarusian politician, Oleg Gaidukévich.
The lawyer Anna Kanopátskaya, who already attended five years ago, is the only one who has dared to criticize the management of Lukashenko, although the opposition has labeled her as “KGB candidate.”
Eurodiputados ask that their legitimacy be recognized
In a resolution adopted on Wednesday, the MEPs asked the EU, their member states and the international community that do not recognize the legitimacy of the one considered as the last dictator of Europe. Two days later, the European Commission (CE) said that the presidential elections are “antidemocratic” and a “farce.”
About seven million beel -brain are called to the polls in the Belarusian elections, of which 41.81 % (almost 3 million) have already exercised the right to suffrage in advance since Tuesday.
The vote started at 08.00 local time and will conclude at 8:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m., 18.00 in Spain), after which the first preliminary results will be issued. Lukashenko, the European president who has been in power for more years – since 1994 – decided to present himself to his 70 -year re -election.
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