By Ben Aris in Berlin Incumbent Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko swept to a landslide victory in Sunday’s presidential election taking 86.82% of votes, according to preliminary results said the Central Election Commission Chairman Igor Karpenko at a press conference on January 26.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko extended his rule with a controversial win in an election rejected by Western nations as illegitimate. Securing 86.8% of the vote, Lukashenko's victory lacked free and fair conditions,

Alexandr Lukashenko has been elected to a seventh five-year term as president of Belarus, extending his already 31-year rule, after election officials officially declared him the winner of the presidential election held yesterday, Sunday, which Western governments have called a “fraud.”