Belarus election commission says 73 per cent of the country's eligible voters took part in the polls, filling all 110 seats in the national parliament.
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00:00 Belarus election authority says 73% of the country's eligible voters cast their ballots
00:06 in Sunday's parliamentary and local elections, filling all 110 seats in the national parliament.
00:13 President Alexander Lukashenko cast his vote and then announced his intention to stand
00:17 for another five-year term in next year's presidential polls.
00:21 "It will be very difficult.
00:23 I am sure, especially after this one-day voting and our elections, because we will elect absolutely
00:30 reliable, sensible people who understand what tasks lie ahead of our people."
00:43 Opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya thanked those who'd heeded the call to boycott the
00:48 polls which she described as a "circus" which would not transform a dictator into a democrat.
00:54 Only candidates belonging to the four officially registered parties loyal to Lukashenko were
00:59 allowed to compete in the elections.
01:02 About a dozen parties were denied registration last year.
01:06 (wheel spinning)
01:08 (whooshing)