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>Not sure what Belarusians expect. They can get Onkel Luka with Russian orientation, or they can get someone with EU orientation which just so flawlessly worked out for their southern neighbour. Never ever they will join EU, unless Germs and Frenchies will be so desperate for working hands and even negers and ayraps are coming first. And joining the EU won't give salvation, just the promise they can get somewhat better living standards while being a colony for Westerners. And will the EU exist until then? Who knows.

Now they are mostly protesting against harsh police reaction, not about elections as is. Police is really pretty harsh, now it easily enters private apartments and beats everyone just because it can, and people aren't like it.

Compared to this, political reason is more broad and abstract - people tired of poorness, corruption and bad situation in economics, but no one really cares about specific president candidate, because all of them are literally nonames from nowhere. These candidates (those who didn't jailed yet) also act like stubborn clowns, so protest is mostly unorganized and, as we may see, not really effective. Of course some forces support protests (including Russia who likes that Lukashenko becomes friendlier), but overall it is just a unorganized mess with constant demonstrations and police reaction, that leads to nowhere.