Not a single opposition candidate won a parliament seat. So yeah, I think it’s safe to say, without even having observed a single polling station myself, that something stinks. Here’s the report, straight from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe:

“…The election took place in a strictly controlled environment with a barely visible campaign, said the observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA).


Voting was generally well conducted, but the process deteriorated considerably during the vote count. Promises to ensure transparency of the vote count were not implemented. The count was assessed as bad or very bad in 48 per cent of polling stations visited. Where access was possible, several cases of deliberate falsification of results were observed.


OSCE monitors were prevented or hindered from observing the vote count in 35 per cent of cases. This compromised the transparency of this fundamental element of the election process.”

More from the AP:

“The Belarusian elections commission announced a few hours earlier that no opposition candidates had won any of the 100 seats in parliament. All seats went to supporters of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.


‘The opposition has gone out of fashion,’ Central Elections Commission chief Lidiya Yermoshina said.


She said more than 75 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in Sunday’s election.


‘We can’t say that the opposition has lost since in fact there was no election,’ Valentina Svyatskaya of the Belarusian Popular Front told The Associated Press.”