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Djibouti President Ismael Guelleh wins majority, enters fifth term

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DJIBOUTI CITY, 10 April, 2021 (TON): On Friday, Djibouti President Ismael Guelleh extends his two decades tenure by winning Friday's vote as he received 98.58 percent of votes.

According to provisional results, he will enter a fifth term with this majority win.

The 73-year-old faced off against his only rival businessman Zakaria Farah, who won less than 5,000 votes.

Ahmed Tidiane Souare, head of the African Union (AU) observation mission told the media on Friday, that his team had not met any delegates of the opponent in the polling stations visited, specifying that this was not an obligation.

Farah sharply criticized the absence of his delegates from the polling stations, appearing to suggest that they had been barred from entering.

However, as per the records, it is theoretically Guelleh's last term as a 2010 constitutional reform introduced an age limit of 75 and scrapped term limits. Guelleh is the second president of Djibouti since independence from France in 1977.

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