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		</div><p>The top opposition candidate in Belarus’s presidential election has left the country for Lithuania and called on her supporters to end demonstrations.</p>
<p>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya initially refused to concede defeat in the election amid a massive police crackdown on protesters.</p>
<p>Looking dishevelled and distressed, Ms Tsikhanouskaya, a former teacher and political novice, apologised to her supporters in a video statement and said it was her own choice to leave the country.</p>
<p>She said: “It was a very hard decision to make. I know that many of you will understand me, many others will condemn me and some will even hate me. But God forbid you ever face the choice that I faced.”</p>
<p>In a later video statement, she urged her supporters to respect the law and avoid clashes with police.</p>
<p>Her campaign aides said she made the unexpected move under duress. Ms Tsikhanouskaya’s husband has been at a Belarusian jail since his arrest in May.</p>
<p>Maria Kolesnikova, a top figure in Ms Tsikhanouskaya’s campaign, said: “It’s very difficult to resist pressure when your family and all your inner circle have been taken hostages.”</p>
<p>Ms Tsikhanouskaya previously dismissed the official results of Sunday’s election showing authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko winning a sixth term by a landslide. Thousands of opposition supporters who also protested against the results met with a tough police crackdown in Minsk and several other Belarusian cities for two consecutive nights.</p>
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