Comoros: a second round of legislative elections without great suspense

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The Comoros voted this Sunday, February 22, for the second round of the legislative elections. The opposition did not send candidates to these elections, deciding to boycott them. The atmosphere is fairly calm in the country.

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With our correspondent in Moroni, Anziza M'Changama

The country's National Assembly has 24 deputies and 19 of them have already been directly elected in the first round. The candidates still in the running are all from the presidential movement or without labels but close to President Azali Assoumani.

There is therefore hardly any suspense in these legislative elections whose campaign rallies were almost non-existent. In the capital, for example, the Radhi party of the government spokesperson announced its withdrawal from the race at the start of the in-between-round campaigns for the benefit of its opponent, from the CRC of Azali Assoumani.

The voters of the island of Mohéli already know their four representatives of the nation, all elected in the first round and all from the CRC. Out of 24 constituencies, the president's party, which had only two outgoing deputies, already has 16 of the 19, elected in this first round.

When the results of the first round were announced by the CENI, it was the 61% participation rate which was the subject of debate, because ultimately these legislative elections, which were played out a little in advance, did not seem to mobilize the electorate . But it was a dying opposition, having deserted the political terrain that wanted to complain about it through press releases.

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