According to a RIA Novosti correspondent reporting from the scene, about 20 tents remain in place. Protesters stood around the tents with their elbows locked, holding posters supporting opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich, and with slogans such as "No to Rigged Elections!" and "Freedom to Political Prisoners."
The situation is calm with the police presence scaled down from what it was when thousands of demonstrators took to the square after the vote on Sunday.
Final results announced by the Central Election Commission Thursday gave incumbent leader Alexander Lukashenko 83% of the vote with all ballots counted. Opposition groups denounced the results as fraudulent, and called for a re-run.
Former collective farm boss Lukashenko, who has held power since 1994 and has been widely criticized in the West for autocratic ways despite maintaining support among the population, trounced second-placed Milinkevich, who received just 6.1% of the vote and had forecast that his main rival would sweep to an easy victory before any ballots had even been cast.
The opposition has planned another major rally in Minsk on March 25, which has been dubbed "Freedom Day", an unofficial holiday marking the day when Belarus declared independence in 1918, and a traditional day for opposition demonstrations.
The police said they would take "adequate security measures" on that day.
