EU: the Belarusian elections were not democratic

The local authority elections which took place on Sunday in Belarus did not comply with democratic norms, the European Union has stated. One of the heads of the European Commission Benita Ferrera-Valdner spoke of a flagrant lack of “democratic pluralism” The leader of the Belarusian opposition Aleksandr Milinkevich commented that the voting had been held under massive pressure from the authorities and that he believed the results to have been rigged.