Provisional results show Faustin-Archange Touadera received 76.15 percent of the vote in December 28 election.<\/p>\n
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Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera has won a third term in office, securing an outright majority in the presidential election held on December 28, according to provisional results.<\/p>\n
The results announced on Monday showed Touadera received 76.15 percent of the vote, while former Prime Minister Anicet-Georges Dologuele received 14.66 percent and former Prime Minister Henri-Marie Dondra received 3.19 percent.<\/p>\n
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Voter turnout \u200dwas 52.42 percent.<\/p>\n
Touadera, a 68-year-old mathematician who took power a decade ago, was seeking a third term \u2060after a constitutional referendum in 2023 scrapped the presidential term limit.<\/p>\n
He campaigned on his security record in the \u200bchronically unstable nation after enlisting help from Russian mercenaries and Rwandan soldiers. He also signed peace \u200ddeals with several rebel groups this year.<\/p>\n
The \u2060main opposition coalition, known by its French acronym BRDC, boycotted the election, saying it would not be fair.<\/p>\n
Even before the results were announced, Dologuele and Dondra had cast doubt on their credibility, calling separate news conferences to denounce what they described as election fraud.<\/p>\n
Dologuele, the runner-up in the 2020 election, told a news conference on Friday that there had been \u201ca methodical attempt to manipulate\u201d the outcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Central African people spoke on December 28,\u201d Dologuele said. \u201cThey expressed a clear desire for change.\u201d<\/p>\n
Touadera\u2019s government has denied \u200bthat any fraud took place.<\/p>\n
The Constitutional Court has until January 20 to adjudicate any \u200cchallenges and declare definitive results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Provisional results show Faustin-Archange Touadera received 76.15 percent of the vote in December 28 election. Published On 5…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":495870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7779,223074,90,50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-495869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-central-african-republic","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115846730429842001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}