nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200808-111142-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200807s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200808-111142-0 doi eng 342 23 The Kafkaesque Edifice of Law - Belarusian Presidential Elections 2020 Verfassungsblog 2020-08-07 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The current presidential campaign has already been described as a “révolution de femmes” by Le Monde and echoed with “an ordinary Belarusian wife looking after her two children […] posing the greatest threat to an authoritarian rule” by the Financial Times. The improbable presidential candidate Śviatłana Cichanoǔskaja (or Tsikhanouskaya) decided to run in the campaign in place of her husband Siarhiej Cichanoǔski. He and two other increasingly popular alternative candidates – Viktar Babaryka and Valery Capkała – were not allowed to compete for office, all for different reasons. They were unusually hard challengers for the current autocratic ruler Aliaksandar Łukašenka, who is running for his sixth consecutive term following his 26 years in power. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutional Law elections Miadzvetskaya, Yuliya Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-kafkaesque-edifice-of-law/ raw object