Belarus election: Inside Alexander Lukashenko’s polling day press conference | BBC News

Authoritarian Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has secured another victory in an election labelled by Western governments as a sham.

The Central Election Committee stated on Monday that Lukashenko won 86.8% of the vote and that turnout was almost 87%.

BBC’s Russia Editor, Steve Rosenberg, was given access to a press conference that the leader held on polling day and challenged Lukashenko on democracy in Belarus and his views on President Donald Trump.

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