Belarus Lukashenko wins sixth term by landslide, opposition ready for 'long term' protests
MOSCOW — Belarusan President Alexander Lukashenko won a landslide reelection according to preliminary results announced Monday that have provoked protests and opposition accusations of vote-rigging.
In Minsk, images and video posted to social media Sunday night showed heavily armored riot police using water cannons, stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators after a Central Election Committee official told state television that initial results showed Lukashenko claiming more than 80 percent of the vote.His main opposition rival, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, received about 10 percent, according to further preliminary results released Monday morning.
In one video, a police prisoner van appeared to run into a demonstrator in Minsk. Multiple human rights groups said Monday that the person later died of head wounds and that dozens of others were hospitalized.Protests in Gomel and Vitebsk also turned violent, but in some smaller cities, rallies were peaceful, and authorities did not move to disperse them.
Lukashenko initially played down the coronavirus as “psychosis,” refused to enforce sanitary restrictions such as nonessential business closures and canceling mass events, and then later admitted that he had contracted the coronavirus but endured it “on his feet.” There has been speculation about his health because he has been spotted with a catheter in his arm this month.
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