Long-serving Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko won a sixth term with 80.23 percent of the vote, the central electoral commission said Monday, after police cracked down on opposition protesters.
entral electoral commission chief Lidia Yermoshina said in televised comments that the strongman’s main challenger Svetlana Tikhanouskaya won 9.9 percent, citing a preliminary count.
The other three candidates each won less than two percent, Yermoshina said.