Opposition leader demands revelation of voting results in presidential election: "does not get results" • 3,000 protesters arrested • Reports of dead

• Demonstrations in Belarus

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The day after the election, the political storm in Belarus seems to be refusing to calm down. Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has stated that she does not recognize the results obtained after the vote - and intends to appeal, according to a report in the Russian news agency Interfax.

All this after the Central Election Commission in Minsk announced that the incumbent leader Alexander Lukashenko received 80.23% of the vote while Tikhanovskaya received only 9.9%. According to her, her election headquarters saw the real protocols from polling stations across the country and these testify that she is the winner.

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In a media briefing today (Monday) Tikhanovskaya made it clear that she has no intention of leaving Belarus because she has no reason to do so. She referred to the riots that took place during the night in Minsk, and said they were unacceptable. According to her, her headquarters received unverified information about the deaths among the protesters. "If the information about the dead is verified - it will be the beginning of the end," she stressed.

Its chief of staff announced that the opposition was preparing for lengthy demonstrations. Earlier, a Belarusian human rights organization announced that a demonstrator had been killed in Minsk who had been killed as a result of being run over.

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The Belarusian news site tut.by, which is affiliated with the opposition, reported that during the night about 3,000 people who took part in the demonstrations were arrested, most of them in Minsk. During the clashes with the security forces, 50 civilians and 39 policemen were injured. EU officials condemned the police violence and called for the immediate release of all detainees.

In the first post-election referendum, Lukashenko stated that the protesters were led by officials from Poland, the Czech Republic and Britain, according to the TAS news agency. The Belarusian president has stressed that he will not allow Maidan-style protests - as there were in Ukraine during 2014-2013 - and he will give a crushing answer "to an attempt to tear the country apart".

At a conference of CIS countries, the president said: "We have recordings of talks abroad. There have been talks from Poland, Britain and the Czech Republic in which they have managed, forgive me, our sheep. They do not understand what they are doing so it is very easy to control them." He added that internet disconnections in the country are also being carried out from abroad.