MOSCOW, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Belarussian president-elect Alexander Lukashenko announced on Tuesday "all political battles after the March 19 presidential poll are over."

    "At present, peace and order is ensured in Belarus after casual outbreaks of unrest that were promptly and effectively eliminated by law enforcers," the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Lukashenko as saying.

    "The unique feature of the Belarussian election campaign is that the government is never involved in political events and remains the country's economic think tank," Lukashenko said.

    The originally planned inauguration date, March 31, was postponed, Nikolai Lozovik, secretary of the Central Election Commission, said on Tuesday.

    The date "has not been coordinated with the work schedule of the head of state," he said, adding, "It is the president who fixes the date."

    Lozovik said the inauguration ceremony would, supposedly, take place in the first half of April.

    Lukashenko won a landslide victory in the presidential election on March 19, collecting 83 percent of the votes. His main rival Alexander Milinkevich received just 6.1 percent.

    Opposition demonstrators have camped in October Square since the day after the vote, in support of a call for a rerun of the presidential vote. Long after midnight on Wednesday, the number of people who remained on the square reached at least 700 and some 250 people stayed there overnight.

    Thousands of opposition supporters also gathered on Saturday in a Minsk park after being denied access to square. Riot police were sent to break up the rally, which the government said was illegal.

    The 51-year-old Belarussian leader was first elected in 1994 and got the go-ahead to run for a third term through a constitutional referendum in 2004. Enditem