Election to the National Assembly in Djibouti 2013

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The election for the National Assembly in Djibouti 2013 took place on February 22, 2013 in the north-east African state of Djibouti . The main opposition parties in Djibouti were elected in an electoral coalition called Union pour le Salut National (Union for National Salvation, USN). The previous election to the National Assembly in Djibouti in 2008 had been boycotted by the opposition parties, so that all seats had gone to the ruling coalition Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle (Union for the majority of the President, UMP).

According to official information, the coalition Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle, which has been in power since 2003, won almost 2/3 of the seats to be allocated in the National Assembly in 2013 . The UMP coalition is dominated by the Rassemblement Populaire pour le Progrès party, which has ruled Djibouti since independence in 1977.

The opposition, however, reported that the elections in Djibouti City were fraudulent and published their own censuses, which would result in the number of seats in the ruling party being significantly lower and their own increasing accordingly. Even according to this information, the ruling Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle would have won a majority of the seats.

According to the French broadcaster RFI, at least 40 opposition activists were arrested in the days after the election.

Official results

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A total of 65 seats
  • Union pour la Majorité Presidentialielle : 55
  • Union pour le Salut National : 10
Distribution of seats
Parties and coalitions be right % Seats
Union pour la Majorité President 55
Union pour le Salut National 10
Center of the United Democrats 0
Invalid 2345 - -
Total 184 160 100 65
voter turnout 122 647 66.6 -

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IOG takes risk of renewing RPP top brass Africa Intelligence, Oct. 6, 2012
  2. ↑ Djibouti regime facing tough poll The Australian, February 21, 2013, accessed June 2, 2013
  3. ↑ http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/d/djibouti/djibouti2013.txt Adam Carr archive, accessed June 2, 2013
  4. ^ Taz article "Oppositionists arrested" from June 4, 2013
  5. ↑ Inter-Parliamentary Union: IPU PARLINE database: DJIBOUTI (Assemblée nationale), ELECTIONS IN 2013. Retrieved on September 21, 2018 .