85.5% of Belarusians plan to participate in Presidential election, opinion poll finds

85.5 percent of Belarusians plan to participate in the Presidential election in Belarus – 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 from the sociological survey, BelTA reports

Respondents were asked if they were going to take part in the upcoming election. 85.5 percent of respondents answered positively, and 4.8 percent replied negatively, while 9.7 percent have not made up their minds yet.

“People are going to participate in the election, make their conscious political and strategic choice. The survey showed the stability of the socio-political situation and the cohesion of the society,” Ms. Lashuk said.

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.