Presidential Election Is Held In Belarus

On Sunday, January 26, the presidential elections are held in Belarus.

According to the CEC of the Republic, about 6.9 million Belarusian voters will be able to vote on 5,325 polling stations.

Voting will end at 20:00 local time.

The elections will be considered that are held if more than half of the voters included in the voting lists will take part in the vote.

According to the CEC, 41.81% of voters took part in early voting on January 21-25. The President will be considered elected if more than half of the citizens who participate in the vote vote for him.

The rivals of the current head of state Alexander Lukashenko are in the election are the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party Oleg Gaidukevich, entrepreneur Anna Kanopatskaya, the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Communist Party Sergey Syrankov and the chairman of the Republican Party and Justice Alexander Khizhnyak.