{"id":76883,"date":"2026-04-15T07:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/76883\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:41:19","slug":"benin-romuald-wadagni-elected-president-with-94-05-on-april-14-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/76883\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin: Romuald Wadagni elected president with 94.05% on April 14, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-42-780x470.png\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-main-img=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to provisional results released on April 14, 2026 by the\u00a0Commission \u00c9lectorale Nationale Autonome,\u00a0Romuald Wadagni\u00a0won the presidential election with 94.05% of the vote, against 5.95% for Paul Hounkp\u00e8. Voter turnout reached 58.75% based on official data from the same institution. A former Minister of Economy and Finance, he will succeed\u00a0Patrice Talon\u00a0on May 23, 2026, following the end of the incumbent\u2019s two constitutional terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to provisional results released on April 14, 2026 by the\u00a0Commission \u00c9lectorale Nationale Autonome,\u00a0Romuald Wadagni\u00a0won the presidential election&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,75,272,877,264,28387,28379,28380,756],"class_list":{"0":"post-76883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afrique","8":"tag-afrique","9":"tag-benin","10":"tag-governance","11":"tag-institutions","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-presidential-election","14":"tag-romuald-wadagni-patrice","15":"tag-talon-cena","16":"tag-west-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@afrique\/116407598059849142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}