白俄羅斯完成2025年總統選舉登記，允許六名象徵性候選人在投票中「挑戰」獨裁者盧卡申科。

根據人權組織維亞斯納報道，在即將舉行的選舉之前，白俄羅斯執法人員進行了大規模搜查。

Six candidates have been approved by the Belarusian Central Election Committee (CEC) to “challenge” dictator Alexander Lukashenko in the upcoming 2025 presidential election. The candidates, who are all loyal to Lukashenko, will begin collecting signatures to enter the race. Meanwhile, independent election observers will attempt to monitor the conduct of the “election” from afar due to restrictions on their presence in Belarus. They have established the “Human Rights Activists for Free Elections” campaign to gather information from publicly available sources. The campaign will also provide legal assistance to candidates and their initiative groups.

白俄羅斯中央選舉委員會（CEC）已批准六名候選人在即將舉行的2025年總統選舉中「挑戰」獨裁者亞歷山大·盧卡申科。忠於盧卡申科的候選人將開始收集簽名參加競選。同時，由於白俄羅斯的存在受到限制，獨立選舉觀察員將試圖從遠處監督「選舉」的進行。他們發起了「人權運動者爭取自由選舉」運動，從公開來源收集資訊。該活動還將向候選人及其倡議團體提供法律援助。

The candidates approved by the CEC include Anna Kanapatskaya, a spoiler candidate who participated in the 2020 presidential campaign; Siarhei Bobrykau, chairman of the Belarusian Union of Officers; and Siarhei Syrankou, leader of the Communist Party of Belarus. The previously registered initiatives are those of Lukashenko and three other loyalists: Aleh Haidukevich, leader of the pro-Lukashenko Liberal Democratic Party; Alexander Hizhnyak, leader of the Republican Party; and a former spokeswoman of the Interior Ministry, Olga Chemodanova.

中央選舉委員會批准的候選人包括曾參加2020年總統競選的攪局候選人安娜·卡納帕茨卡婭（Anna Kanapatskaya）； Siarhei Bobrykau，白俄羅斯軍官聯盟主席；以及白俄羅斯共產黨領導人Siarhei Syrankou。先前登記的倡議是盧卡申科和其他三名忠誠者的倡議：親盧卡申科自由民主黨領導人阿列赫·海杜克維奇(Aleh Haidukevich)；亞歷山大·希日尼亞克（Alexander Hizhnyak），共和黨領袖；以及內政部前發言人奧爾加·切莫達諾娃 (Olga Chemodanova)。

Lukashenko has stated that he considers the nomination of his supporters to be dictated by the desire to “secure” him. “I’m sure they just want to flank me here, to keep me safe, no more, no less. Well, I would like it that way,” Lukashenko told a state-owned TV channel.

盧卡申科表示，他認為他的支持者的提名是出於「保護」他的願望。 「我確信他們只是想從側面保護我，保證我的安全，不多也不少。好吧，我希望這樣，」盧卡申科告訴一家國有電視頻道。

RFE/RL political analyst Valer Karbalevich has written that “the nomination of several candidates, apart from Lukashenko, is designed to create the illusion that the current campaign is no different from the previous ones.” Belarus has not had any free or fair elections since Lukashenko came to power in 1994. During mass protests in 2020, the Belarusian regime relied heavily on Russia’s support to quell domestic unrest.

RFE/RL政治分析師瓦萊爾·卡爾巴列維奇(Valer Karbalevich)寫道，「除了盧卡申科之外，提名幾位候選人的目的是為了製造一種錯覺，即當前的競選活動與之前的競選活動沒有什麼不同。自1994年盧卡申科上台以來，白俄羅斯從未舉行過任何自由公正的選舉。

Meanwhile, independent election observers will attempt to monitor the conduct of the “election” from afar due to restrictions on their presence in Belarus. The Belarusian Helsinki Committee and Human Rights Center Viasna have established the “Human Rights Activists for Free Elections” campaign to gather information from publicly available sources. The campaign will also provide legal assistance to candidates and their initiative groups.

同時，由於白俄羅斯的存在受到限制，獨立選舉觀察員將試圖從遠處監督「選舉」的進行。白俄羅斯赫爾辛基委員會和維亞斯納人權中心發起了「人權活動家爭取自由選舉」運動，從公開來源收集資訊。該活動還將向候選人及其倡議團體提供法律援助。

The campaign will operate remotely, as independent election observation is impossible on site due to the political terror and repressions unleashed by the Lukashenko regime, which has outlawed all but four loyal parties, jailed Lukashenko’s main political opponents along with around 1,300 people, now considered to be political prisoners, and eliminated 1,700 non-profit organizations.

競選活動將遠端進行，因為盧卡申科政權發動政治恐怖和鎮壓，不可能在現場進行獨立選舉觀察。科的主要政治對手以及大約1,300 人，這些人現在被認為是被關押為政治犯，並消滅了1700個非營利組織。

“Conducting a free and open election campaign is impossible in a situation of political terror,” the campaign said in its first election report.

「在政治恐怖的情況下進行自由和公開的競選活動是不可能的，」該競選團隊在其第一份選舉報告中表示。

“It seems that the only role of the remaining registered candidates is to formally demonstrate the presence of an alternative in the 2025 elections, but not to overshadow the main candidate or even create the illusion of competition,” says the campaign’s lawyer, Sviatlana Halauniova.

該競選團隊的律師 Sviatlana Halauniova 表示：“剩下的註冊候選人的唯一作用似乎是在 2025 年選舉中正式證明替代方案的存在，而不是讓主要候選人黯然失色，甚至不製造競爭的假象。”

The registered initiative groups have until Dec. 6 to gather over 100,000 signatures for their candidates to enter the race. The process of gathering signatures will occur at a time when repression still haunts those who signed for alternative candidates in 2020, Polish-backed news outlet Belsat reports. Employees at government agencies, banks, military enterprises, and plants were fired for supporting Lukashenko’s opponents.

已註冊的倡議組織必須在 12 月 6 日之前收集超過 10 萬個簽名，以便其候選人參加競選。據波蘭支持的新聞媒體 Belsat 報道，收集簽名的過程將在 2020 年簽署替代候選人的人仍然受到鎮壓之際進行。政府機構、銀行、軍工企業和工廠的員工因支持盧卡申科的反對者而被解僱。

“It is such a sometimes invisible process that it is impossible to evaluate,” Viasna’s Pavel Sapelka told Belsat. “We know about the phenomenon, but we cannot estimate its scale,” he said.

「這是一個有時看不見的過程，無法對其進行評估，」Viasna 的 Pavel Sapelka 告訴 Belsat。 「我們知道這種現象，但我們無法估計其規模，」他說。

Exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who claimed to have beaten Lukashenko in the 2020 presidential election, has denounced the elections as an “imitation” and “non-elections.” Her office has called on supporters to protest against the rigged elections by voting against all.

流亡反對派領袖斯維亞特蘭娜·齊哈努斯卡婭(Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya)聲稱在2020年總統選舉中擊敗了盧卡申科，她譴責這次選舉是“模仿”和“非選舉” 。她的辦公室呼籲支持者透過投票反對所有人來抗議選舉被操縱。

Other voices in the exiled opposition have called for a full boycott or consolidated voting for one of the spoiler candidates. Still, in the absence of a fair vote count, the effectiveness of either strategy would be hard to prove, political analyst Artsiom Shraibman suggests.

流亡反對派中的其他聲音呼籲全面抵製或聯合投票給一位破壞性的候選人。不過，政治分析家阿齊奧姆‧施萊布曼表示，在缺乏公平計票的情況下，這兩種策略的有效性都很難證明。