{"id":12152,"date":"2018-08-20T13:23:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12152"},"modified":"2018-08-20T13:23:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:23:59","slug":"constitutional-court-ratifies-president-keitas-election-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12152","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional court ratifies President Keita&#8217;s election win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"94.9659239843\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Mali&#8217;s constitutional court has confirmed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita&#8217;s win in this month&#8217;s run-off election, rejecting fraud accusations by the opposition candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>Monday&#8217;s verdict by the country&#8217;s top court clears the way for Keita to begin his second five-year term on September 4 after he was declared\u00a0<span>winner of Mali&#8217;s presidential election on August 16.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Challenger Soumaila Cisse had contested the results of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/mali-ibrahim-boubacar-keita-wins-election-president-180816101307903.html\">August 12 vote<\/a> when he filed a fraud complaint to the constitutional court seeking nullification of Keita&#8217;s victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2018\/08\/mali-soumaila-cisse-rejects-results-ballot-counting-180813171405248.html\">reject the results<\/a> proclaimed by the Ministry of Territorial Administration that do not reflect the vote of Malians,&#8221; Cisse said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Keita, who is widely known as IB, got 67.2 percent of the votes, comfortably beating Cisse, who received 32.8 percent, according to electoral officials.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2.7 million Malians voted in the runoff election, a 34 percent turnout despite threats by armed groups.<\/p>\n<p>Cisse said he would have won 51 percent of the vote but for ballot box stuffing and other cheating by Keita&#8217;s camp. Keita rejected the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>European Union observers said there were irregularities during the vote but did not say there was fraud.<\/p>\n<p>After results were declared, Keita received congratulations from French President Emmanuel Macron, whose military has been engaged in Mali in the fight extremism.<\/p>\n<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also called the 73-year-old Keita to congratulate him.<\/p>\n<p>The UN has had more than 12,000 peacekeepers in Mali since 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali&#8217;s constitutional court has confirmed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita&#8217;s win in this month&#8217;s run-off election, rejecting fraud accusations by the opposition candidate. Monday&#8217;s verdict by the country&#8217;s top court clears the way for Keita to begin his second five-year term on September 4 after he was declared\u00a0winner of Mali&#8217;s presidential election on August 16. Challenger&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}