presidential election

A total of 5,767 polling stations have opened in the country and 44 – abroad.

Tsikhanouskaya appealed to the Interior Ministry and the TV channel Belarus 1.

On Wednesday evening, wannabe presidential candidate Viktar Babaryka announced that his team had collected over 50,000 signatures for his nomination.

The minimum number of opposition representatives was included in the election commissions.

During Sunday’s live broadcast on Youtube, wannabe presidential candidate Viktar Babaryka answered people’s questions and elaborated on his political ambitions and his vision of the country’s independence.

Mikhail Orda — Chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus — will be the head of the initiative group of the incumbent president.

She announced this at a press conference

The COVID-19 threat is taking the ‘full participation’ in the 2020 presidential campaign and electing the single candidate off the table, a group of Belarusian opposition politicians said on May, 10.

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin has assented to the deputies’ proposal to ‘zero out’ a number of presidential terms he served on condition that the Constitutional Court and Russian citizens approve it, the press service of the State Duma of the Russian Federation reports.

The upcoming presidential election is to be held no later than 30 August 2020. Incumbent president Alyaksandr Lukashenka announced his intention to run for the post yet another time. Later, five opposition parties declared they would be selecting the common candidate. Opposition plans to use the system of primaries, which will be a new experience for Belarusians. 

Five Belarusian opposition parties have agreed to nominate a single candidate for the 2020 presidential elections.

The Belarusian opposition is expected to announce the start of the single presidential candidate’s campaign on January, 27.