Presidential elections in Niger 1996
In the presidential elections in Niger in 1996 was determined by direct election of the President of the Republic of Niger selected. The elections, considered rigged, took place on July 7th and 8th, 1996. Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara emerged as the election winner .
background
The officer Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposed the democratically elected President Mahamane Ousmane in a coup on January 27, 1996 . This was preceded by a year of mutual blockade policy between President Ousmane ( CDS-Rahama ) and the parliamentary majority of Prime Minister Hama Amadou ( MNSD-Nassara ). Under the supervision of the military, a new constitution was drawn up, which was adopted in the constitutional referendum on May 12, 1996 and which strengthened the role of the president.
In the following presidential elections on July 7 and 8, 1996, Baré Maïnassara ran against his original announcement that he would only remain head of state for a transitional period. He founded his own party, the National Union of Independents for Democratic Renewal (UNIRD). The ousted President Mahamane Ousmane stood for election again, alongside three other candidates from major parties who had run in the previous presidential elections in 1993 .
The first results of the presidential elections of 1996 ranked Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in last place, whereupon he dismissed the independent state electoral commission. The official final results are considered heavily manipulated.
Results
Of 3,804,750 registered voters, 2,525,019 officially went to the polls. This corresponds to a turnout of 66.4%. Of the 2,525,019 ballot papers submitted, 2,417,189 were rated as valid and 107,830 as invalid (or blank ballot papers).
| candidate | Political party | Number of votes | Share of votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara | UNIRD | 1,262,308 | 52.22% |
| Mahamane Ousmane | CDS-Rahama | 477.431 | 19.75% |
| Mamadou Tandja | MNSD-Nassara | 378,322 | 15.65% |
| Mahamadou Issoufou | PNDS Tarraya | 183,826 | 7.60% |
| Adamou Moumouni Djermakoye | ANDP-Zaman Lahiya | 115,302 | 4.77% |
consequences
Eight major opposition parties boycotted the post-presidential parliamentary elections on November 23, 1996 after Baré Maïnassara refused to restore the independent state electoral commission to its original form. In the parliamentary elections, UNIRD and other parties closely related to the president received 69 out of 83 seats in the National Assembly . President Baré Maïnassara appointed Amadou Boubacar Cissé , former member of the MNSD-Nassara and already head of government under Mahamane Ousmane, as Prime Minister on December 21, 1996.
literature
- Mamadou Dagra : Le Code Electoral Nigérien du 16 avril 1996: Facteur de Renouveau Démocratique et de Stabilité? In: Revue Nigérienne de Droit . No. 1 , March 1999, p. 15-51 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leonardo Alfonso Villalón and Abdourahmane Idrissa: Repetitive Breakdowns and a Decade of Experimentation. Institutional Choices and Unstable Democracy in Niger . In: Leonardo Alfonso Villalón and Peter VonDoepp (Eds.): The Fate of Africa's Democratic Experiments: Elites and Institutions . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2005, ISBN 0-253-34575-8 , pp. 38-39.
- ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 208 and 230.
- ^ Elections in Niger at African Elections Database, published October 30, 2011, accessed October 22, 2012.
- ↑ Niger: Parliamentary elections Assemblée nationale, 1996 . Inter-Parliamentary Union website , accessed October 22, 2012.
