Rwanda’s Kagame on track for fourth presidential term: Provisional results
Al Jazeera
With 79 percent of ballots counted, Kagame has won more than 99 percent of the vote.
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame is set for a fourth term in office with provisional results showing him winning more than 99 percent of the vote, according to electoral authorities.
Kagame, the country’s de facto leader for three decades, faced only two challengers after the courts banned his most prominent critics.
The National Electoral Commission said late on Monday that Kagame had won 99 percent of the vote, with 79 percent of ballots counted.
Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda got 0.53 percent, while independent Philippe Mpayimana received 0.32 percent, the commission said.
Kagame’s vote share tops the 98.7 percent he secured in the last election in 2017.
