In Belarus, Lukashenko is reelected in legitimate and democratic elections
Field Report
Posted by: John Phoenix
Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Associations, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert.
On January 26, Belarusians went to their polling stations to vote for the country’s president for the next five years. Five candidates, including the current president of the Republic of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, ran for the position. In the West, governments and propagandists disguised as “experts” described the election process as “unfair and undemocratic,” but observers on the ground disagree with this assessment.
At the invitation of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I worked as an international election observer in Minsk from January 23 to 26. I had the opportunity to see on the ground the r...