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Mauritania's Highest Court Confirms Election Win for Abdel Aziz |
2014-06-30 |
[An Nahar] Mauritania's highest court on Sunday confirmed the victory of incumbent leader Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz in presidential polls, and rejected an appeal calling for the results to be annulled. "The candidate Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz was elected President of the Islamic Theocratic Republicof Mauritania in the first round of the presidential election," the chairman of the constitutional council, Sgheyir Ould M'barek, said during an official ceremony. The chairman added that 57-year-old Abdel Aziz had won "an absolute majority of votes cast" in the June 21 election. |
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