The current president of Djibouti, Ismail Omar Gili, was re-elected for a fifth term of 5 years, after the authorities announced that he had won more than 98% of the vote.
Interior Minister Moamen Ahmed Sheikh said - Friday evening on public television - that "President Ismail Omar Jili got 167,535 votes, or 98.58% (...) These are the interim results of the presidential elections on April 9, 2021 ″, explaining that the results The final will soon be issued by the Constitutional Council.
His opponent is the independent candidate Zakaria Ismail Farah, a 56-year-old businessman and newcomer to politics.
About 215,000 registered voters (out of a population of 990,000) were invited;
To vote on Friday at the country's 529 polling stations, most of which are located in the capital, Djibouti.
And my generation voted yesterday afternoon, and was accompanied by a number of officials, security leaders and journalists, and said that he was "very, very confident" of his victory.
Earlier, competitor Farah told Agence France-Presse that "my vote is of no use to anything, nor are the votes of 80% of the Djiboutian people," then criticized - in another written statement - the absence of delegates at polling stations.
As for the head of the African Union monitoring mission, Ahmed Tidiane Sawari, he told the press yesterday noon that his team "did not meet any delegates" of Farah at the polling stations he visited, indicating that this is not "mandatory", and stressed that "everything is being done according to the rules and quietly."
And President Jelly - who has ruled the country for 22 years - had run for a fifth and final term in theory, because the constitution does not allow anyone over the age of 75 to run in the elections, and this is supposed to be his last ballot.
Because it will exceed this age in 2026.