Opinion poll: 82.5% of Belarusians ready to vote for incumbent President during election

82.5 percent of Belarusians are ready to vote for the incumbent President of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko during the election – as noted by Irina Lashuk, the Head of the Department of Economic Sociology and Psychology of Entrepreneurship, Head of the Belarusian State Economic University’s Centre for Social and Humanitarian Studies, when announcing data of the sociological survey, BelTA reports

Respondents were asked who they would vote for if the election was held today. 82.5 percent of those polled answered ‘For the incumbent Head of State’, 2.9 percent replied ‘For an alternative candidate’, 7.9 percent said they would choose ‘None of the above’ option, and 6.7 percent admitted they wouldn’t vote.

“An eloquent fact: 82.5 percent of respondents are ready to support the incumbent Head of State in the upcoming election. Accordingly, the Belarusian society is confident in the implemented state course, in building international relations, which creates a favourable basis for the development of strategic interaction with other countries. The foreign policy formula of Belarusians is the importance of the cultural community of the partner country combined with a high level of economy and development of trade relations,” Ms. Lashuk emphasised.

A counter-survey between Belarus and Serbia was conducted in December 2024. In Serbia, the public opinion poll was organised by the Institute for International Politics and Economics with the involvement of House of Win, an independent research centre. In Belarus, the survey was conducted by the Centre for Social and Humanitarian Studies of the Belarusian State Economic University (BSEU) via door-to-door interviews (covering 1,500 respondents). The main goal was to identify the peculiarities of mutual perception of Belarusians and Serbs, to determine the most promising areas of co-operation and development of friendly relations between the two countries. Taking into account the coincidence of the time of the social research with the election campaign in Belarus, a separate block of questions in the Belarusian part of the study concerned citizens’ assessment of the socio-political situation and citizens’ electoral priorities.