 Amadou Toumani Toure, Mali's president, has been re-elected with an absolute majority in Sunday's election, according to official results. Provisional results announced on Thursday by the territorial administration ministry, which organised the election and collated the returns, showed Toure won 68.3 per cent of the valid votes. His closest rival, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, president of the national assembly and a former prime minister, trailed well behind with 18.59 per cent of the ballots. Voter turnout, traditionally low in Malian polls, was 36 per cent. Toure's campaign had previously claimed more than 70 per cent of votes while those backing Keita have already cried foul and pledged to challenge the outcome. |