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'I don't give a damn about the West,' says Lukashenko as EU threatens further sanctions
euronews (in English)
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27/01/2025
Final votes are still being counted, and the result isn't expected to be released until later on Monday, but state television predicted Lukashenko would win with almost 88% of the vote.
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The European Union has threatened new sanctions on Belarus after President Alexander Lukashenko
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looked certain to score his seventh consecutive election win since 1994.
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Foreign Policy Chief Kaya Kalas released a joint statement with Enlargement Commissioner
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Marta Kos, slamming the sham election.
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The relentless and unprecedented repression of human rights have deprived the electoral
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process of any legitimacy, the statement said.
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They didn't give any more details about what the eventual new sanctions package would target
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or when it would be implemented.
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Final votes are still being counted and the result is expected to be announced later on
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Monday.
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But state television said on Sunday that Lukashenko was on course to take almost 88% of the vote.
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His 2020 election win was also dismissed as a sham by the West and the result sparked
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weeks of widespread protests across the country.
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That prompted a brutal crackdown by security forces and led to 65,000 arrests.
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Belarus is holding an estimated 1,200 political prisoners.
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Since July, Lukashenko has released around 250 that rights activists say were jailed
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for political reasons.
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But it's unlikely that the condemnation from Western leaders or the threatened EU sanctions
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will make much of a difference to Lukashenko.
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I don't give a damn about the West, he told the press in Minsk.
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