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2020 Belarusian presidential election
September 2020
The United States and the European Union lead the list of countries that do not recognize the re-election of Alexandr Lukashenko, as president of the Republic of Belarus. However, Putin shows his support for the Belarusian leader, assuring him of his help in case it suffers any "threat" from his neighbors.
On August 9, 2020, the sixth presidential elections and the first polls in Belarus were held without the presence of Western observers. Alexandr Lukashenko was re-elected with a support of 79.7% of the votes, according to the exit polls. On the other hand, the candidate of the unified opposition, Svetlana Tijanovskaya, who is presented by The New York Times as "the great new hope", accumulated 6.8%, a figure far from the predictions of the experts.
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