Belarus NEWS: Presidential elections in Belarus, December 19, 2010 (video)

Presidential elections in Belarus, December 19, 2010, Alexander Lukashenko declared himself president of the state for the fourth time. Great! Everyone in Belarus knew the result before the “elections”. There is a famous Belarusian saying: “It doesn’t matter how you vote, the matter is how they count”. Watch the video to witness what happened after the results of the “elections”.

There are rumors that Lukashenko ordered the Central Election Commission to reduce the percentage of his votes on purpose. During the previous presidential elections in 1996, 2001 and 2006 he gained more than 80 %. This time, in 2010, they decided to make it a little bit less: 79.67%.

40 000 people came to the central square (Octyabrskaya) of the Belarusian capital (Minsk) in order to show their protest to the results of the elections. Those who wanted to protect their votes went from Octyabrskaya square to the Government building where the police and the storming groups were already waiting for the demonstrators. The crowd demanded new fair elections.

This event united a lot of people

But the group of state agent provocateurs started to break the windows and the doors of the Government House. It was done on purpose in order to give the police an excuse to crack down on protesters and to arrest the presidential candidates: Vladimir Neklyaev, Nikolay Statkevich, Aleksey Mikhalevich, Andrey Sannikov and Vitaliy Rymashevskiy.

The other candidates: Yaroslav Romanchuk, Grigoriy Kostusyov, Viktor Tereschenko and Alexander Lukashenko (lol!) were far away from the Government building during the storm and stayed free. Vladimir Neklyaev, Nikolay Statkevich, Aleksey Mikhalevich, Andrey Sannikov (and his wife, the journalist Iryna Khalip) and a lot of other Belarusian politicians are now facing prison terms and may spend in jail up to 15 years. A lot of people who were arrested on January 19 are now free but they will never forget this awful day.