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Djibouti: Le président Guelleh réélu à plus de 97%
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Djibouti s President Guelleh wins fifth term with 97% of votes
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Djibouti-Le président Guelleh réélu à plus de 97%
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NAIROBI (Reuters) -Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh won a fifth five-year term on Saturday after an election boycotted by most of the opposition, securing over 97% of the votes cast, official data from the Interior Ministry on Saturday showed.
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Friday’s vote pitted only one challenger against the incumbent - relative newcomer Zakaria Ismail Farah. The Interior Ministry data showed that he came second with 2.48% of the 177,391 votes cast. Some 5,447 ballots were declared invalid.
Farah said the results were “far from reality”.
“This outcome is undoubtedly the result of ballot-box stuffing, (which) occurred in the absence of my delegates,” he told Reuters, adding they were barred from accessing polling stations to monitor the process.
Guelleh re-elected Djibouti president for fifth term AFP 2 hrs ago © Laurence SAUBADU Longevity of African leaders
Djibouti s veteran ruler Ismail Omar Guelleh was overwhelmingly re-elected for a fifth term as president, according to final results announced Saturday, after the vote in the tiny but strategically important country was boycotted by the main opposition.
Around 215,000 citizens were registered to vote in the ballot pitting Guelleh, 73, against a little-known businessman widely seen as posing scant threat to the strongman, who has been in power since 1999. © Tony KARUMBA Djibouti President Ismael Omar Guelle is seeking an all-but assured fifth term
Alexis Mohamed, special adviser to the president, said Guelleh received 167,536 votes compared to 4,408 for his challenger in the Horn of Africa nation, which overlooks one of the world s busiest trade routes at the crossroads between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.