EU nations urge 'free and fair' Belarus elections in the absence of OSCE, Council of Europe observation after reports of electoral irregularities
Supporters of Svetlana Tikhanouskaya, a candidate in the upcoming presidential election and President Alexander Lukashenko's main challenger, react during a rally in Minsk, Belarus, August 6, 2020.
"We urge the Belarus authorities to conduct the presidential election in a free and fair way, especially by ensuring independent surveillance of the vote by local observers," Jean-Yves Le Drian, Heiko Maas and Jacek Czaputowicz said in the statement. His leading rival, 37-year-old Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, is running in place of her jailed husband and has drawn massive crowds at rallies across the country in an unprecedented display of frustration with Lukashenko's rule.for political reasons, and urged the government to refrain from any violence or violations of "civil and political freedoms".
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