The government candidate Ikililou Dhoinine won Sunday's presidential election in the Comoros, officially announced Wednesday, December 29, Moroni National Electoral Commission (INEC). Mr. Dhoinine, current vice-president and heir apparent of the country's outgoing President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, has collected 61% of the votes cast.His main rival, opposition candidate Mohamed Said Fazul, collected 33% of the votes before a third candidate, Abdou Djabir, credited with 6%. The rate of voter turnout amounted to 52.8%, according to the INEC. These results must be confirmed within two weeks by the Constitutional Court.
Under a system of rotating presidency introduced by the 2001 Constitution between the three islands of the Indian Ocean, Mohel (former Moheli) Ngazidja (formerly Grande Comore) and Ndzouani (formerly Anjouan), to establish an end to separatist temptations, all three candidates were from the small Mohel.
"Massive fraud" The opposition says the vote was marked by a "massive fraud orchestrated by the government, with stolen ballots, ballot stuffing and assessors of the opposition chased out of office. Camp Ikililou Dhoinine has concluded that the vote took place in a "serene climate", the presidency of bowing his next election "exemplary".
France, which had observers on the spot, for his part denounced "numerous irregularities" and "interventions" of the military from voting in Ndzouani. An international observer mission, composed of representatives of the African Union (AU), Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) and the Arab League, also attended the ballot, but has not yet expressed.
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