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According to Sputnik News, opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya won 25.4% of the vote, not the officially reported 10%.
Her support was far less than the 60% majority triumph she falsely claimed, Sputnik further explaining:
"Golos' figures are based on data received after the processing of protocols from 1,310 polling stations, constituting about 22 percent of the total 5,767 polling places throughout Belarus, with protocols said to cover regions across the country, including cities, towns and villages."
"The protocols were said to account for about 1.8 million voters, or about 32.2 percent of the 5.8 million people who cast votes."
Despite results it reported, Golos claimed they're not reliable, adding:
Lukashenko "cannot be considered Belarus' legitimate president." Election results should be declared "invalid."
Lukashenko won. Tikhanovskaya lost. Cross-border in Lithuania, she met with US and EU officials, manipulating her to serve their interests.
On Sunday, Sergey Lavrov accused anti-Lukashenko elements of seeking "bloodshed" in the country.
With establishment media support, Tikhanovskaya appeals more to the West than Belarusians who oppose a repeat of 2013-14 (US orchestrated) Euromaidan violence in neighboring Ukraine.Tikhanovskaya "was not allowed to calm (things) down, and she began to make political statements, quite harsh ones, demanding to continue strikes, walkouts, protests," Lavrov explained her remarks scripted by her US handlers.
Notably her remarks are made in English for a Western and Belarusian audience, not her native language.
Controlled by her handlers, her agenda is unrelated to strengthening democracy in Belarus, a notion both right wings of the US one-party state abhor and tolerate nowhere not at home or abroad.
Russia is involved diplomatically to prevent a repeat of what happened in Ukraine.
The Kremlin supports the right of Belarusians to decide on who'll lead them free from foreign interference.
Previous articles discussed the reintegration of Belarus into Russia with or without Lukashenko.
By referendum judged open, free, and fair by international monitors, Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to correct an historic mistake by returning to Russia.
Belarusians deserve the same choice to decide by independentlymonitored referendum whether or not to again become a Russian republic.
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