Answering the question of the British company BBC, whether Western countries consider him legitimate, the president of Belarus said that he “doesn’t care”, adding that he “was not elected by the European Union.” Lukashenka, whom he refers to belta.by , stated that it is important to him how the Belarusian people perceive him.
In the presidential elections of Belarus, held in August 2020, Lukashenko, according to official data, won more than 80 percent of the vote. After the elections, interest rates began in the country, the number of participants of which, according to some estimates, reached hundreds of thousands. The participants of the protest actions claimed that the victory of the president of the countryhe won with the help of falsifications. Many of them were detained.
Afterwards Lukashenko thanked the riot police for “not flinching” during the mass protests. Commenting on the falsifications, he admitted that “someone could add half a percent, a percentage, two,” but made the statement that “it is impossible to draw 80 percent.”