Putin ally projected to easily secure seventh term in election that US and EU have said could not be free or fair
Alexander Lukashenko is firmly on track to win a seventh five-year term as Belarusian president with 87.6% of the vote in Sunday’s election, according to an exit poll broadcast on state television.
Lukashenko, a close ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has been in power in the country since 1994.
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