President,who has ruled the country for 20 years, is expected to remain in office after exit polls point to him getting up to 84% of the voteExit polls in Belarus showed the president, or Alexander Lukashenko,winning a fifth term by a landslide.Lukashenko’s re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of main opposition figures, but support for his 20-year-old regime has risen since he cast himself as a guarantor of stability in the face of economic crisis and a pro-Russia separatist conflict in neighbouring Ukraine.
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Source: theguardian.com