The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of his three decades in power.Needed! the posters proclaim beneath a photo of Lukashenko, his hands clasped together.
They call the election a sham much like the last one in 2020 that triggered months of protests that were unprecedented in the history of the country of 9 million people.
The phrase is what groups of voters responded in campaign videos after supposedly being asked if they wanted him to serve again.
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