In an election that was widely dismissed as rigged, Europe’s longest-serving leader, President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus, cruised to his seventh election victory in a row yesterday.
A survey of voters leaving polling places that was released by state media yesterday evening showed the president getting 87.6 percent of the vote, more than the 81 percent he claimed to have won in 2020.
Exit polls are controlled by the state, like all aspects of elections in Belarus, and generally reflect the ultimate outcome.
