Belarusian presidential election; The voting branches were opened
reported by Mehr News Agency quoted Tass, according to the announcement of the Central Election Commission of Belarus, more than 5,300 polling stations for the presidential elections of this country have started.
The commission announced that about 6.9 million people are eligible to vote. Voting will end at 20:00 local time.
If more than half of the eligible voters participate in the election, the election will be valid. According to the announcement of the Election Commission, 41.8 percent of the voters cast their votes in the early voting that was held from January 21 to 25.
The president will win by getting the votes of more than half of the participants in the election. More than 44 thousand domestic observers and about 500 international observers are monitoring the election process.
Five candidates, including Alexander Lukashenko, the current president who has been in power since 1994, are competing for the presidential election of Belarus.
Oleg Gaidukevich, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Anna Kanupatskaya, an entrepreneur, Sergei Sirnakov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and Alexander Kizhniak, leader of the Republican Party of Labor and Justice, are Lukashenko’s rivals in the election. This is the course.
