Alexander Lukashenko votes (Photo: AFP/Belarusian Presidential Press Service)
Eurasia
27/02/2024 19:50
"Members of political parties: 70 people, non-aligned members: 40. The political parties represented are: the Belaya Rus party - 51 people (46.4% of the total number of deputies), the Communist Party of Belarus - seven people (6.4%), the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus - four people (3.6%), the Republican Party of Labor and Justice - eight people (7.3%)," he said according to the Russian news agency.
Karpenko also informed that 20 out of the 110 elected deputies are members of the lower house of the current convocation. There are 37 women in the new composition of the Chamber, as well as an individual under 31.
On February 25, during the first one-day election in the history of Belarus, 110 deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly and 12,514 members of local councils were elected to five-year terms. There were 263 candidates vying for seats in the parliament, while 18,802 candidates competed for mandates in local councils. The voter turnout was 73.09%.
Polling results in Belarus indicate that the current government is supported by more than 87% of the population, the President of the Republic, Alexander Lukashenko, said at a meeting with the Secretary General of the CIS, head of the observer mission from the organization Sergey Lebedev. The President noted that "there are also dissatisfied people." "We understand this perfectly well. Therefore, in this electoral cycle, we need to reflect and draw appropriate conclusions; we need to fix some things. We don't have many such problems," Lukashenko said. - We will tighten them up and fix them over the year. And I am sure that even more people will turn out for the presidential election."
Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on the successful completion of parliamentary and local elections.
"Dear Alexander Grigoryevich, I warmly congratulate you on the successful holding of the unified election day and the confident victory of the patriotic forces of Belarus," a telegram posted on the Kremlin website said.
"The high turnout and the results of the people's will clearly confirm the broad support for the course of harmonious socio-economic development of Belarus under your leadership, ensuring domestic political stability and promoting mutually beneficial integration processes within the Union State," the Russian leader added.