{"id":322582,"date":"2026-01-20T11:17:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322582"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:17:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:17:49","slug":"central-african-republic-court-validates-pres-touaderas-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322582","title":{"rendered":"Central African Republic court validates Pres Touadera&#8217;s re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/512\/51258007.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"President of the CAR Faustin-Archange Touadera casts his votes\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption>P<strong><em>resident of the CAR Faustin-Archange Touadera casts his votes<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BANJUI, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Central African Republic&#8217;s Constitutional Court on Monday validated President Faustin-Archange Touadera&#8217;s victory in a disputed Dec 28 presidential election that handed him a third term.<br><br>Even before provisional results were announced on Jan 5, Touadera&#8217;s opponents had alleged fraud, but the government denied that.<br><br>&#8220;On behalf of the Central African people, the Constitutional Court declares Faustin Archange Touadera president-elect in the first round with 77.9% of the vote,&#8221; President of the Constitutional Council Jean-Pierre Waboe said.<br><br>Touadera&#8217;s main rival, former Prime Minister Anicet-Georges Dologuele, received 13.5% of the vote, final results from the electoral commission showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Constitutional Court said it rejected an appeal that Dologuele had lodged after the announcement of provisional results.<br><br>Another competitor, former Prime Minister Henri-Marie Dondra, who got 2.97% of the vote, last week acknowledged Touadera&#8217;s victory and said he decided not to appeal.<br><br>&#8220;I made this decision to preserve peace and avoid reigniting tensions. I call on the president-elect to take the necessary measures to reconcile the Central African people and organize a genuine dialogue to ease political tensions in the country,&#8221; Dondra said.<br><br>Touadera, a 68-year-old mathematician who took power a decade ago, campaigned on his security record in the chronically unstable nation.<br><br>His victory will likely further the interests of Russia, which has traded security assistance for access to resources, including gold and diamonds. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the CAR Faustin-Archange Touadera casts his votes BANJUI, Jan 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Central African Republic&#8217;s Constitutional Court on Monday validated President Faustin-Archange Touadera&#8217;s victory in a disputed Dec 28 presidential election that handed him a third term. Even before provisional results were announced on Jan 5, Touadera&#8217;s opponents had alleged fraud, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322582"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322583,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322582\/revisions\/322583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}