{"id":123900,"date":"2025-01-28T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T11:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/123900\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"prague-belarus-election-cannot-be-considered-legitimate","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/123900\/","title":{"rendered":"Prague: Belarus’ election cannot be considered legitimate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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January 28, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Belarus\u2019 presidential election on January 21-26 was marred by ongoing reprisals, systematic human rights abuse, suppression of opposition and restriction of free access to information, the Czech foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe so-called elections did not meet the basic parameters of democratic electoral processes and therefore, as in 2020, cannot be considered legitimate,\u201d it stressed, noting that Belarusian authorities only sought to extend Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s 30-year rule in Belarus. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only free, fair and transparent elections can ensure Belarusians\u2019 constitutional rights to choose their representatives, Czech diplomats said, calling for \u201ca pluralistic political environment without fear of persecution or arrest, freedom of speech, freedom of the media and freedom of assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarus\u2019 seventh presidential election on January 21-26 took place in a purged political landscape amid a new wave of crackdown on regime critics. Belarus\u2019 election authorities have declared \u0141uka\u0161enka winner with 86.82 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia, Canada, the European Union, New Zealand, Ukraine and the United Kingdom have already dismissed it as a sham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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