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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

BelarusCandidatePresidential candidate, Belarus

Belarusian opposition candidate in the 2020 presidential election, who stood after her husband was detained and barred from registering. The official result declared her the loser by a wide margin; she rejected it, and the election was held without an OSCE/ODIHR observation mission able to assess the count. She left the country under pressure shortly after the vote.

This is not a biography collection. Entries cover a person's record on elections and voting rights only, and every entry carries a citation to a court ruling, an official finding, or an election-observation report. Nothing appears here without a source, and inclusion is not a judgement about a person.

Electoral record

Each entry is dated, categorised by what it did to the conduct of an election, and cited.

  1. 2020RecordedCandidacy

    Registered as a presidential candidate after her husband was detained and refused registration.

    Elections in Belarus — election observation reports — OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
  2. 2020Disputed resultCandidacy

    Rejected the official result, which was declared without any international observation mission present to assess the count.

    Elections in Belarus — election observation reports — OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
  3. 2020Restricted accessAction

    Left Belarus under pressure in the days after the vote, amid mass arrests of opposition figures and observers.

    Elections in Belarus — election observation reports — OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights

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