The Lithuanian foreign minister says that the leading opposition candidate in Belarus’ presidential election has fled her country and is now “safe” in Lithuania
The top opposition candidate in Belarus’ presidential vote who refused to concede her defeat has fled the country amid a massive police crackdown on protests, Lithuania’s foreign minister said Tuesday.Tsikhanouskaya previously dismissed the official results of Sunday’s election showingwinning a sixth term by a landslide. Thousands of opposition supporters who also protested the results met with a tough police crackdown in Minsk and several other Belarusian cities for two straight nights.
Election officials said Lukashenko won a sixth term in office with 80% of the vote, while Tsikhanouskaya got 10%. But after submitting her formal demand for a recount to Belarus’ Central Election Commission, she said: “I have made a decision, I must be with my children.”She had previously sent her children to an unspecified European country after receiving threats.
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