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The authoritarian leader of Belarus on Tuesday accused the West of trying to foment protests during parliamentary and local elections this month in order to undermine his rule, while the country's opposition leader-in-exile denounced the vote as a “cynical farce” and called for its boycott. President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus for nearly 30 years, charged that the West will try to use “new triggers to destabilize the society” after the Feb. 25 vote. Early balloting began Tuesday in the tightly-controlled parliamentary and local vote, in which only those who follow Lukashenko's political course were allowed to compete.