Extrainsatt ministermöte på fredag om valet i Belarus
Europeiska utrikesministrar kommer att hålla ett extrainsatt möte på fredag med anledning av det omtvistade valresultatet i Belarus, meddelar EU:s utrikeschef Josep Borrell på Twitter.
– Jag tycker absolut att vi måste överväga att utöka riktade sanktioner, säger utrikesminister Ann Linde (S) till Sveriges Radio Ekot.
Under dagen har kvinnor samlats på gatorna runtom i Belarus i demonstrationer mot polisvåldet. Efter att valresultatet presenterats, där Alexander Lukasjenko fick över 80 procent av rösterna, har omfattande protester pågått i landet.
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Presidentvalet i Belarus 2020
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Presidential elections were held in Belarus on Sunday, 9 August 2020. Early voting began on 4 August and ran until 8 August.The president was elected directly to serve for five years. Incumbent Alexander Lukashenko was re-elected to run for a sixth term in office (with about 80% of all votes in his favour according to official results), having won every presidential election since 1994, with all but the first being labelled by international monitors as neither free nor fair. The prior election was reported as not being democratic to this same effect. Opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya declared herself the winner of the elections and called on Lukashenko to start negotiations, meanwhile, her campaign team stated that they were ready to hold "long-term protests" against the official results.All of the candidates, excluding Lukashenko, have filed appeals to the Central Election Commission of Belarus (CEC) calling for the results to be invalidated.
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