Belarus is holding legislative elections this Sunday, January 25. 110 members of the lower house of representatives must be renewed.
The repression, which has intensified since 2020, prevents any challenge to autocratic power. Belarus and its Russian neighbor signed a treaty in 1999 which created a union of the two states, with a supreme authority, a Parliament and even an audit chamber. These institutions should one day allow the merger of the countries into a confederal entity, writes Ronan Hervouet, author of The Suspended Revolution.