Belarus election called a ‘sham’

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Belarus’s election commission says authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko won re-election with 87% of the vote over the weekend. The country’s political opposition is mostly in jail or exiled abroad. As Host Carolyn Beeler explains, today they and European leaders called the election a sham.

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