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Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 11 October 2015.[1] Long-term president Alexander Lukashenko ran for his fifth term in office, having won every presidential election since independence in 1991. He was re-elected with 84% of the vote, according to official figures. The 'against all' option received more votes than any opposition candidate.
As with previous elections in Belarus,[2] the 2015 election was not democratic.[2][3] In a report following the election, Miklós Haraszti, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Belarus, determined that the results were not free and fair and that "the election process was orchestrated, and the result was pre-ordained", given extensive limits on civil and political rights in Belarus and a high level of election-day fraud.[4]
- ^ Parliament approves 11 October 2015 as Belarus president election date Archived July 4, 2015, at the Wayback Machine Belta, 30 June 2015
- ^ a b Sofie Bedford (2017). ""The Election Game": Authoritarian Consolidation Processes in Belarus". Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization. 25 (4): 381–305.
officially the [EU] sanctions were reduced as a 'reward' for the 2015 presidential elections being peaceful and non-violent, despite the fact that these elections were just as non-democratic as any previous election in Belarus
- ^ Jones, Mark P. (2018). "Presidential and Legislative Elections". The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190258658.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190258658-e-23. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
unanimous agreement among serious scholars that... Lukashenko's 2015 election occurred within an authoritarian context.
- ^ Belarus election 'neither free nor fair,' says UN human rights expert, United Nations (October 13, 2015).