Past presidential elections in Belarus were not carried out for retirees. Such an opinion was expressed by the chairman of the Central Election Commission Lidia Yermoshina at the roundtable on "Media and Elections" on February 24. "This is not the choice of retirees, but all the people," said the head of the Belarusian Central Election Commission.
She also stated that retirees are usually the primary voters and the most active part of the electorate. This is because retirees, according to the CEC head, are very conscientious citizens. «They consider it their duty … Young people no longer sees it as a right, of course,» said Lidia Yermoshina, BelTA informs.
CEC Chairman noted that people were extremely active in past elections and «all those, who had already been forgotten, who had actually never attended the polls, came.»
As Telegraf previously reported, according to the Central Election Commission, above 1.6 million people or 23.1% of voters took part in early voting in the presidential elections in Belarus. Alexander Lukashenko, who had collected nearly 80% of the vote, won the elections.
