Belarus Registers Five Presidential Candidates
Collection of signatures in support of the nomination of presidential candidates in Belarus, 2024. X/ @uawarinfo
December 23, 2024 Hour: 1:57 pm
Oleg Gaidukevich, Alexander Khizhnyak, Anna Kanopatskaya, and Sergei Syrankov will compete against Alexander Lukashenko.
On Monday, Igor Karpenko, the chairman of the Central Elections Commission (CEC), confirmed that five candidates for Belarusian president have been registered so far.
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The electoral authorities registered the incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus Oleg Gaidukevich, chairman of the Republican Party of Labor and Justice Alexander Khizhnyak, individual entrepreneur Anna Kanopatskaya, and first secretary of the Communist Party Sergei Syrankov.
The candidates were announced following verification of the authenticity of the signatures collected in support of the candidates and confirming their exact number.
The Commission said that Lukashenko’s candidacy has collected more than 2.5 million signatures in support, while the remaining candidates have collected a little over 100,000 each.
Karpenko also confirmed that 93 international observers have been accredited to monitor the presidential elections, and 951 national observers have been accredited with territorial commissions.
Starting from Jan. 1, 2025, the electoral process will move into the pre-election campaigning stage. The presidential election will take place on Jan. 26, 2025.
So far, the favourite candidate to win the 2025 election appears to be Alexander Lukashenko. Between 1990 and 1994, he was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Since 1994, Lukashenko has been the only president of this European country since the creation of that office, making him the longest-serving head of state in Europe.
teleSUR/ JF Sources: Xinhua – EFE