The main opposition party's appeal against the result of the presidential election of May 20 was rejected by the Constitutional Court of Burundi, Thursday, June 4. She proclaimed president elected the candidate of power, Évariste Ndayishimiye. 

The appeals of the head of the National Council for Freedom (CNL), Agathon Rwasa, against the results of the presidential, legislative and municipal elections, are "null and void," announced one of the seven judges of the Constitutional Court.

This then validated the final results giving the candidate of the ruling party (CNDD-FDD), General Ndayishimiye, winner of the presidential election with 68.70% of the vote, ahead of Agathon Rwasa (24.18%) and the candidate from the Union for National Progress (Uprona), Gaston Sindimwo (1.63%).

Invested in August

Évariste Ndayishimiye, 52, will be invested in August for a seven-year term renewable once. He will succeed Pierre Nkurunziza, in power since 2005, who did not represent himself and had dubbed him as his "heir". 

The Constitutional Court found that the CNL, which challenged the provisional results given by the Electoral Commission, had not provided sufficient evidence to support its argument. This party had denounced an "electoral masquerade", drawing up the long list of irregularities committed according to it by the power, which would have put pressure on the assessors of the opposition and the voters and multiplied the frauds. 

Agathon Rwasa had filed this appeal while having repeatedly repeated having no illusions about the outcome of the proceedings before the Court, which had validated the re-election of President Pierre Nkurunziza in 2015. 

That year, Pierre Nkurunziza's candidacy for a controversial third term plunged the country into a major political crisis, which left at least 1,200 people dead and led to the exodus of some 400,000 Burundians. 

With AFP 

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