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Belarus plans to hold a presidential vote, in which incumbent Alexander Lukashenko is likely to secure a seventh straight term, on January 26.

"The party has never missed a single election campaign since 1994. We have always worked to strengthen the constitutional order of the country… Therefore, I want to announce my participation in the elections and I am running from the Liberal Democratic Party as a presidential

Belarus will hold its next presidential election on 26 January, according to the country's Central Election Commission. This will be the first presidential vote since the contested 2020 election, which faced widespread allegations of fraud and sparked mass protests.