2014 Mauritanian presidential election Registered 1,328,168 Turnout 56.46% (
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Presidential elections were held in Mauritania on 21 June 2014, with a second round planned for 5 July if no candidate received more than 50% of the vote. The result was a first round victory for incumbent President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of the Union for the Republic , who received 82% of the vote. Most of the opposition parties boycotted the election.
Background
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was the incumbent President of Mauritania at the time of the election and had been in office since 2009. A career soldier and high-ranking officer, he was a leading figure in the August 2005 coup that deposed President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya , and in August 2008 he led another coup , which toppled President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi . Following the 2008 coup, Abdel Aziz became President of the High Council of State as part of what was described as a political transition leading to a new election. He resigned from that post in April 2009 in order to stand as a candidate in the July 2009 presidential election , which he won. He stood as a candidate again in the 2014 election.
Conduct
Although boycotted by opposition groups, the African Union praised the elections for taking place relatively peacefully. Turnout was estimated at 56%.
Results
Candidate Party Votes % Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Union for the Republic 577,995 81.89 Biram Dah Abeid Radical Party for a Global Action 61,218 8.67 Boïdiel Ould Houmeit El Wiam 31,773 4.50 Ibrahima Moctar Sarr Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal 31,368 4.44 Lalla Mariam Bint Moulaye Idriss Independent 3,434 0.49 Total 705,788 100.00 Valid votes 705,788 94.12 Invalid/blank votes 44,077 5.88 Total votes 749,865 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 1,328,168 56.46 Source: CENI , IDEA
References
Prieur, Laurent (21 April 2014). "Mauritania sets June 21 date for presidential election" . Reuters. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
^ "Mauritanian President Abdel Aziz easily re-elected in boycotted vote" . Reuters . 2014-06-23. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved 2014-06-23.
"Le Haut Conseil d'Etat rend public un nouveau communiqué" Archived 2008-08-12 at the Wayback Machine , AMI, 7 August 2008 (in French).
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