More than 60% of Belarusians studied election programmes of Presidential candidates, the poll finds

More than 60 percent of Belarusians have studied the election programmes of candidates for the presidency of the Republic of 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 commenting on the sociological poll results, BelTA reports

When asked if they had studied the programmes of the Presidential candidates, 61.4 percent of respondents answered positively and 38.6 percent negatively.

“If people mostly studied the programmes of the Presidential candidates, it means that they made an informed choice,” Ms. Lashuk emphasised. “It is clear that all 100 percent will not study the programmes of the candidates in detail. If we talk, e.g., about the election programme of Aleksandr Lukashenko, there was no need to study it very carefully: Belarusians know the course of the Head of State very well. This is good and shows that people are informed. At the same time, 61.4 percent is a really significant figure. That is, people did not just go to the polls. They made a stable, conscious, civic choice.”

In February 2025, the Belarusian State Economic University’s Centre for Social and Humanitarian Studies conducted a sociological survey – Post-electoral Social Sentiments – by interviewing citizens at their place of residence (face-to-face survey). The poll involved 1,500 adult Belarusians from different regions of the country.