Incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko (C) is pictured at a polling station in Minsk, Belarus, Jan. 26, 2025. (Photo by Henadz Zhinkov/Xinhua)
MINSK, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko is leading the 2025 Belarus presidential election with 87.6 percent of the vote, according to the first exit poll cited by the Belarusian Committee of Youth Organizations on Sunday.
The exit poll showed that the other four candidates received the following percentages of the vote: Oleg Gaidukevich 1.8 percent, Alexander Khizhnyak 1.2 percent, Anna Kanopatskaya 1.6 percent and Sergei Syrankov 2.7 percent. 5.1 percent voted against all candidates.
The head of state is considered elected if a candidate is supported by more than half of the voters.
The president is elected for five-year terms. A two-term limit, reintroduced by 2022 amendments to the constitution, will be imposed after the election. ■
