Lukashenko wins seventh term in Belarus election

President Alexander Lukashenko in 2020. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP, File)

President Alexander Lukashenko has won a a seventh term in office in Belarus, according to the country’s Central Election Commission.

According to a statement by the Central Election Commission, the 70-year-old leader took nearly 87% per cent of the vote in Sunday’s election after a campaign in which four token challengers all praised his rule.