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Tag: Presidential Election

Mr Mahama files motion asking the EC to admit error in Presidential election results
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Mr Mahama files motion asking the EC to admit error in Presidential election results

The 2020 Presidential candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, has filed a motion at the Supreme Court asking the Electoral Commission(EC) to admit it made errors in the declaration of the 2020 Presidential results. Mr Mahama filed the motion on January 18, 2021 ahead of  the pre-trial  of the Election Petition. The Former President is seeking an annulment of the Presidential election results and a re-run of the election between him and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, second Respondent in the petition. He is also praying the Court to order  the 1st Respondent, the Electoral Commission, to proceed to conduct a second election between the petitioner and the 2nd respondent as the candidates,, as required under Articles 63 (4) and (5) of the 1992...
Burundi opposition takes presidential election dispute to court
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Burundi opposition takes presidential election dispute to court

Burundi's main opposition party has filed a case in the country's constitutional court challenging last week's presidential election result, claiming there is evidence of fraud. Burundi's election commission said on Monday the governing party candidate, retired General Evariste Ndayishimiye, had won the presidential election with 69 percent of the vote. It added that candidate Agathon Rwasa got 24 percent of the vote and the election was peaceful. But Rwasa, the opposition leader of the National Freedom Council (CNL), while speaking to reporters on Thursday after filing the complaint, said "appalling errors were made across the country," adding that "no district or province was spared". "We have provided evidence that there has been a massive fraud," Rwasa said. "The ann...