Some protestors making noise and waving flags took to Humber Bay area parks on Saturday to protest last month’s elections in Belarus.

The 2020 Belarusian presidential election was held on August 9 in which incumbent Alexander Lukashenko was re-elected to a sixth term in office, with official results crediting him with 80% of the vote.

Lukashenko has won every presidential election since 1994, with all but the first being labelled by international monitors as neither free nor fair.

Opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya claimed to have won a decisive first-round victory with at least 60% of the vote, and called on Lukashenko to start negotiations. Her campaign formed the Coordination Council to facilitate a transfer of power and stated that it was ready to organize “long-term protests” against the official results.

Opposition candidates have filed appeals to the Central Election Commission calling for the results to be invalidated.

The election was marred by allegations of widespread electoral fraud, with many countries and international organisations, including the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Canada, refused to accept the result of the election.

The European Union imposed sanctions on Belarusian officials deemed to be responsible for “violence, repression and election fraud”.

Police detained over 1,000 people in Belarus during the latest protests against the results of the  presidential election, officials said.

Rallies have taken place in 25 Belarusian cities, including thousands of people in the capital of Minsk for three nights to contest the election results.