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The main presidential candidate of the Belarusian opposition, Svetlana Tijanovskaya , has decided to leave the country. "He had no choice ," a spokeswoman for his candidacy said Tuesday. Tijanovskaya's last appearance was yesterday to reject the official preliminary results of the August 9 elections, according to which Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was re-elected with more than 80% of the votes.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius reported this morning that Tijanovskaya is now in the Baltic country. Already at the beginning of the campaign, the opposition took her children out of the country after receiving threats. "Svetlana Tijanovskaya is safe, she is in Lithuania," the Lithuanian head of diplomacy wrote on Twitter. The opposition leader has left Belarus with her campaign manager, María Moroz, who was arrested last week.

Tijanovskaya ran for election when her aspiring husband was arrested , as was another leading candidate. The woman who has joined the Belarusian opposition contested the preliminary results of the August 9 elections on Monday. And she demanded Lukashenko to give up power in two weeks, assuring that she would not leave the country: "I don't see any reason why she can be arrested or have to leave the country," said the presidential candidate. Why this change of mind?

Olga Kovalkova , a Tijanovskaya staff member, believes the candidate has left Belarus against her will after meeting with officials on Monday at the Central Election Commission. "Before entering the Central Electoral Commission, he had no plans to leave the country. It was not his decision . " Tijanovskaya was missing to her own people for a few hours.

Lithuania has been a common refuge for persecuted people in Belarus. The office of Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda confirmed that Tijanovskaya was "resting" in the Baltic state but gave no further information on her immediate future.

"I have made this decision alone and I know that many will condemn me, many will hate me , " Tijanovskaya said in a video on YouTube. The candidate who in a few weeks mobilized thousands of people against the power of President Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, recorded a video message in which she recounted why she leaves the country to meet her children .

"I thought this whole campaign had made me very tough and gave me so much strength that I could take it all. But I have probably remained the weak woman I was originally. I have made a very difficult decision for myself." Tijanovskaya said goodbye, asking people to take care of themselves . "No life is worth what is happening now. Children are the most important thing in our life," said the opposition candidate.

Tijanovskaya's departure comes after a second night of riots and arrests in Minsk and other cities in Belarus. The authorities reported that one person died in clashes with the police in the capital when "he tried to launch an explosive device at the security forces and it exploded in his hand, sustaining injuries that caused death," according to the Ministry of the Interior of Belarus. On Sunday, about a hundred people were injured, including civilians and police. The number of detainees reached 3,000 . Right now there are active protests in 33 cities.

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