The main oppositionist to the Lukashenko regime, lawyer and daughter of the first official dollar millionaire of Belarus was elected as a member of the lower house of the Belarusian parliament - the House of Representatives - back in 2016. During her time as a member of parliament, Kanopatskaya contacted the European Parliament and NATO and advocated for breaking the treaty on the union state with Russia. In 2020, she participated in the presidential elections, but received only 1.68% of the vote, after which she challenged the official voting results in the Supreme Court.
4. Sergey Syrankov
The leader of the Belarusian communists is the youngest of the candidates, he is only 41 years old (though all the others, except Lukashenko, are also under 50). Despite his age, he has already served as a deputy of the national assembly, and in 2005-06 he completed a student internship in the United States, which is quite unusual for a communist.
5. Alexander Khizhnyak
Another young rival of the current president is the most india mobile database inexperienced politician of all the candidates. Previously, he was a deputy of the Minsk City Council of Deputies. Since 2015, he has headed the Belarusian Research Institute of Urban Development.
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None of the analysts doubt that the current president will win an unconditional victory in 2025.
"Today, there is control over political communication, which was the main problem in 2020, when the opposition had control, not the government. Then we had to turn a blind eye to the functioning of various foreign NGOs. In addition, due to the pandemic, there was an economic downturn. Today, the government maintains communication with the population, there is an agenda that is interesting to the entire population of the republic, and the opposition has been pushed out of the country. Everything is happening calmly and predictably," commented Kirill Koktysh , Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of the Department of Political Theory at MGIMO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, on the course of the current election campaign .
The main concern of the current Belarusian government, which its representatives speak about openly, is not the internal opposition, but threats from outside. However, experts believe that Lukashenko will cope with them too.
"It is possible that we will see attempts to interfere in Belarusian domestic political processes. Rallies, riots, attempts towards a color revolution and a coup d'etat are quite possible. For this, they may use nationalist militants who are currently concentrated in Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania. I think that before the elections they will try to somehow transport them to the territory of the country. I am sure that the Belarusian authorities have enough competence to resist all this," said Vladimir Shapovalov , Deputy Director of the Institute of History and Politics at Moscow State Pedagogical University .