Opposition candidate
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has come in second with 9.90%.
MINSK, August 10.
/TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has won the Belarusian
presidential election with 80.23% of the vote, preliminary results published on
Monday by Lidia Yermoshina, head of the Belarusian Election Commission, inform.
Opposition candidate
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has come in second with 9.90%. The other three
candidates received fewer than 2% of the vote: Anna Kanopatskaya got 1.68%,
Sergei Cherechen - 1.13%, and Andrei Dmitriev - 1.04%. Meanwhile, 6.02% have
voted against all candidates. Yermoshina noted that the preliminary results
would be expanded on, however, the final results are unlikely to change
significantly.
Yermoshina also
informed that the publication of the preliminary results had been postponed, as
the employees of the Belarusian Election Commission were evacuated from the
government building at about 01:00 am due to mass protests in Minsk.
The voter turnout at
the presidential election is reported at 84.23%.
Source: ITAR-TASS
10-08-2020
