EU declares Belarus presidential election was 'neither free nor fair,” threatens sanctions for those responsible
The European Union's foreign ministers will meet on August 27 and 28 in Berlin, and could prepare new measures against Minsk following elections results they claim were"neither free nor fair".
The European Union has declared that the Belarus presidential election that returned authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko to office had been "neither free nor fair". Belarus went to the polls on Sunday against a backdrop of large-scale opposition protests against Lukashenko's rule, but the official electoral commission declared him the winner.
"State authorities deployed disproportionate and unacceptable violence causing at least one death and many injuries," he said, his language echoed in a tweet by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen."The people of Belarus deserve better," he said, demanding the release of the thousands of alleged opposition activists rounded up during the protests.
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