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"Last Sunday, the European Parliament awaited the Belarusian presidential elections which were due to take place. True, the election campaign left little room for hope that the elections would be democratic, free and honest, as the campaign was conducted in an atmosphere of threats, opposition leader arrests and the suppression of the independent press. Lukashenko's regime is responsible for all this, but some still hoped that at least the elections would be honest. Unfortunately, instead of an election all we saw was a farce of an election – a rigged election, like those organised in the 1930s or 1950s in Eastern Europe, and in Lithuania during the Soviet occupation. This is confirmed by the conclusions of the OSCE observer mission, but the ‘jeans revolution’ is not over. Around 600 young people spent yet another night in tents on ‘October’ Square in Minsk, braving a temperature of minus 10 degrees. Yesterday, 11 EU ambassadors visited them to demonstrate the European Union's solidarity. Mr President, we must demand the organisation of fresh presidential elections in Belarus."@en1
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