Lukashenko announces he will run for re-election in Belarus in 2025

The Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenkomain ally of Russia and in power since 1994, announced this Sunday that he will run for new re-election in 2025.

“I will go, I will go, I will go. Tell them (the opponents) that I will appear“, said the president, whose re-election in 2020 gave rise to the largest anti-government protests in the history of that former Soviet republic.

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He added, cited by the state agency BELTAwhich for him is about something”very important”.

“No person, no responsible president, abandons the people who fight for him“Lukashenko said after voting in the parliamentary and municipal elections in Belarusboycotted by the opposition.

The president, whose re-election in 2020 was not recognized by the West, guaranteed that he will not allow his detractors to carry out a change of power.

“We know how to draw conclusions from our mistakes. So don’t expect anything”, he stated.

Lukashenko added that he cannot “Leave tomorrow”, because it would be a betrayal of the country.

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At the same time, he admitted that there is still a year to go until the next presidential elections and many things “could change”.

The leader of the Belarusian opposition in exile, Svetlana Tikhanovskaiapreviously called for a boycott of the parliamentary elections, in which, according to the authorities, at 9:00 am local time, 43.64% of those registered had already voted.

Regarding the recognition of these elections, Lukashenko said that Belarus does not need Western approval.

Source: Elcomercio

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