page_title: 2020 Belarusian presidential election
section_title: Campaign
hierarchical_section_title: 2020 Belarusian presidential election / Campaign
caption_attribution_description: English: Presidential elections 2020 banner. Minsk, BelarusБеларуская: Інсталяцыя "Прэзідэнцкія выбары 2020". Мінск, БеларусьРусский: Инсталляция "Президентские выборы 2020". Минск, Беларусь
context_page_description: Presidential elections were held in Belarus on Sunday, 9 August 2020. Early voting began on 4 August and ran until 8 August.
  The president was elected directly to serve for five years. Incumbent Alexander Lukashenko was re-elected to a sixth term in office, with official results crediting him with 80 percent of the vote. Lukashenko has won every presidential election since 1994, with all but the first being labelled by international monitors as neither free nor fair.
  Opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya claimed to have won a decisive first-round victory with at least 60 percent of the vote, and called on Lukashenko to start negotiations of transferring power. Meanwhile, Tsikhanouskaya's campaign team created a Coordination Council to facilitate a transfer of power. After announced the election results, the reaction of Belarus citizens continue with a "long-term peaceful protests" against them.
  All opposition candidates have filed appeals to the Central Election Commission of Belarus calling for the results to be invalidated. The election was marred by allegations of widespread electoral fraud.
caption: Street banner in Minsk with the date of the election
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