Presidential elections in Niger 2011

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Mahamadou Issoufou , winner of the 2011 presidential election in Niger

In the presidential elections in Niger 2011 , the President of the Republic of Niger was elected by direct election. The first round of the elections took place on January 31, 2011, the second round on March 12, 2011. Mahamadou Issoufou ( PNDS-Tarayya ) emerged as the winner .

background

President Mamadou Tandja ( MNSD-Nassara ), who has been in office since 1999 and was re-elected in 2004, was deposed in a military coup on February 18, 2010 , after he had created the Sixth Republic through a constitutional amendment, thereby extending his term of office beyond December 2009. The current military junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy under the leadership of officer Salou Djibo , promised a swift return to democratic order. With the constitutional referendum on October 31, 2010 , the constitution of the Seventh Republic was established, in which a maximum of two five-year terms of office of the president are provided.

The originally planned election dates already announced in July 2010 by the independent state election commission - January 3, 2011 for the presidential elections and the elections to the National Assembly, and January 14, 2011 for a possible second round of the presidential elections - became more organizational and financial for the reasons Issues postponed to January 31st and March 12th, respectively. Several parties initially called for the elections to be postponed again. After a meeting with representatives of the main parties on January 24, 2011, the Board of Governors for the Restoration of Democracy announced that the January 31, 2011 election date would be respected.

Ten people were accepted as candidates for the office of President. The most important candidates included Mahamadou Issoufou from the PNDS-Tarayya party, an opponent of Tandja and, in the 1990s, Prime Minister Niger, Seini Oumarou from Tandja's party MNSD-Nassara, who was last prime minister under Tandja's rule, Hama Amadou from the MODEN- party . FA Lumana Africa , who had previously been Prime Minister as a MNSD Nassara member, and Mahamane Ousmane from the CDS-Rahama party , who had already served as President from 1993 to 1996. With Mariama Gamatié Bayard , a woman applied for the office of president for the first time. The Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy did not send a candidate of its own from among its ranks. Shortly before election day, six candidates, including Seini Oumarou, Hama Amadou and Mahamane Ousmane, announced that they would cooperate with each other in a second round of elections in view of Mahamadou Issoufou's role as the favorite.

Results

First round of elections

Of 6,740,493 registered voters, 3,475,748 went to the polls. This corresponds to a turnout of 51.6%. Of the 3,475,748 voting slips submitted, 3,298,641 were rated as valid and 177,107 as invalid (or blank ballot slips). The first round of the presidential election took place at the same time as the parliamentary elections in 2011 . Election day passed without major incidents. The election observers of the European Union and the West African Economic Community certified that the elections were transparent and generally carried out well.

candidate Political party Number of votes Share of votes
Mahamadou Issoufou PNDS Tarayya 1,192,945 36.16%
Seini Oumarou MNSD-Nassara 766.215 23.23%
Hama Amadou MODEN-FA Lumana Africa 653.737 19.82%
Mahamane Ousmane CDS-Rahama 274,676 8.33%
Amadou Cheiffou RSD-Gaskiya 134.732 4.08%
Moussa Moumouni Djermakoye ANDP-Zaman Lahiya 129,954 3.94%
Ousmane Issoufou Oubandawaki ARD Adaltchi Mutunchi 63,378 1.92%
Amadou Boubacar Cissé UDR tabbat 52,779 1.60%
Abdoulaye Amadou Traoré independent 17,630 0.53%
Mariama Gamatié Bayard RACINN-Hadin'Kay 12,595 0.38%

Second round of voting

A second round of elections was necessary because none of the candidates could win an absolute majority of the votes in the first round of elections. Hama Amadou (MODEN-FA Lumana Africa), who came third in the first round, announced, contrary to his announcement before the first round, that his party would support Mahamadou Issoufou in the runoff election. The defeated candidates Amadou Cheiffou , Moussa Moumouni Djermakoye and Amadou Boubacar Cissé also announced their support for Issoufou.

Of 6,740,046 registered voters, 3,300,027 went to the polls. This corresponds to a turnout of 49%. Of the 3,300,027 ballot papers submitted, 3,096,818 were rated as valid and 203,209 as invalid (or blank ballot papers).

candidate Political party Number of votes Share of votes
Mahamadou Issoufou PNDS Tarayya 1,797,382 58.04%
Seini Oumarou MNSD-Nassara 1,299,436 41.96%

consequences

The election winner Mahamadou Issoufou was sworn in as president on April 8, 2011. On April 21, 2011 Issoufou installed his 24-member coalition government with Brigi Rafini (PNDS-Tarayya) as Prime Minister. Three members of the government received the rank of Minister of State: Foreign Minister Mohamed Bazoum (PNDS-Tarayya), Planning Minister Amadou Boubacar Cissé (UDR-Tabbat) and Interior Minister Abdou Labo (CDS-Rahama).

literature

  • Virginie Baudais, Enrico Sborgi: The general elections in Niger, January – March 2011 . In: Electoral Studies . Vol. 31, No. 2 , June 2012, p. 453–458 , doi : 10.1016 / j.electstud.2012.02.002 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Niger: Parliamentary elections Assemblée nationale, 2004. Inter-Parliamentary Union, accessed on February 18, 2016 (English).
  2. ^ Constitution de la République du Niger . 2010, Art. 47, Art. 48 ( PDF [accessed on February 18, 2016]).
  3. ^ A b Elections in Niger. In: African Elections Database. October 30, 2011, accessed February 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Biography Mme BAYARD MARIAMA GAMATIE Candidate indépendante aux élections présidentielles nigériennes de juin 2011. RACINN-Hadin'Kay, accessed on February 18, 2016 (French).
  5. ↑ Niger's Issoufou Expand's alliance ahead of run-off. Thomson Reuters , February 11, 2011, accessed February 18, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Le nouveau gouvernement nigérien a été formé. In: RFI . April 22, 2011, accessed February 18, 2016 (French).