Ismail Omar Guelleh won the Presidential Elections in Djibouti according to the election results declared on 9 April 2011. Guelleh of the ruling People’s Rally for Progress (RPP) party got 79.26 percent of the vote while the only opposition candidate Mohamed Warsama Ragueh could manage 20.74 percent votes only. Ismail Guelleh has served two Presidential terms already since 1999. This would be his third consecutive Presidential term for the next five years. The constitution of Djibouti was amended in 2010 that removed a two-term limit for the post of President.
Djibouti’s constitutional council on 13 April 2011 validated the Presidential election results. International observers as well as opposition parties criticized the outcome of the Presidential election results stating that the government didn’t allow a free and fair election.
In 1999, Guelleh had succeeded the first President of Djibouti, Hassan Gouled Aptidon during the country’s first multiparty elections. In 2005, Guelleh had won 100 % vote in the controversial election boycotted by all the opposition parties.Guelleh’s family has ruled Djibouti since independence from France in 1977.
Djibouti is a nation located in the eastern part of Africa and it was a former French Colony. Djibouti hosts the largest overseas French military base as well as the only US military base named Camp Lemonnier in Africa. It has a population of only about 800000.
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