Djibouti: Ismaël Omar Guelleh reelected president with 98.58% of the vote
Djiboutian President Ismael Omar Guelleh has been re-elected as head of the country, according to provisional results.
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Ismaël Omar Guelleh was re-elected Friday with 98.58% of the vote, according to provisional official figures, as president of
Djibouti
, a small strategic country in the Horn of Africa which he has led with an iron fist for 22 years.
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"IOG", 73, was running for a fifth and, theoretically, last term against Zakaria Ismail Farah, a 56-year-old businessman who had recently entered politics and whose chances of victory seemed slim.
"
President Ismaël Omar Guelleh obtains 167,535 votes, or 98.58% (...) These are the provisional results of the presidential election on April 9, 2021
", announced around 3:15 am on the night of Friday to Saturday Moumin Ahmed Cheick, the Minister of the Interior, on public television RTD.
He added that Mr. Farah got less than 5,000 votes.
The final results will soon be "
given by the Constitutional Council
".
Earlier in the evening on Friday, Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed announced on Facebook that "the turnout would exceed 77%", against 68% in 2016. The some 215,000 registered voters (out of a total population of 990,000 people) were invited to go to one of the 529 polling stations in the country, mostly located in the capital
Djibouti
-ville.
In 2016, during the previous presidential election, Mr. Guelleh was credited with around 87% of the vote, again in the first round.
(with AFP)
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