Home > 1.6.2 Second round of voting > BELARUS - Constitution
 
 
 
Download file    
 
 
Article 82
 

The elections shall be deemed to have taken place where over half the citizens of the Republic of Belarus on the electoral roll have taken part in the poll.


The President shall be deemed elected where over half the citizens of the Republic of Belarus who took part in the poll voted for him.


Where no candidate polls the requisite number of votes, within two weeks a second round of voting shall be conducted between the two candidates who obtained the largest number of votes. The presidential candidate who obtains more than half the votes of those who took part in the second poll shall be deemed to be elected.


The procedure governing the conduct of presidential elections shall be determined by the law of the Republic of Belarus.