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The opposition website “Kharty’97” reports that the number of protesters in the Belarusian capital has exceeded one hundred thousand.
A column of protesters has gone to the stake “Reduce-hero city “and from there went to the Independence Palace – Lukashenko’s working residence, reports the agency” Interfax “.
Protests will also take place elsewhere in Belarus on Sunday.
It has already been reported that the leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tihanovska On October 13, Lukashenko issued an ultimatum – he must announce his resignation no later than October 25. If Lukashenko does not do so, “a national strike of all companies, a blockade of all roads, the collapse of trade in state stores will begin,” Tihanovska warned.
Protests against the rigging of the presidential election have continued in Belarus since 9 August. More than 13,000 people have been detained and several hundred injured during the protests. The biggest protests take place on Sundays.
According to the official results of the presidential election in Belarus on August 9, the current head of state Lukashenko won 80.1% of the vote, and the opposition candidate Tikhanovska – 10.1%, but the opposition believes that the election results are fake and Tikhanovsky won the election convincingly.
The European Union and other Western countries have also refused to recognize the election results.
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