Burundi’s electoral commission is to announce provisional results from last week’s presidential election today, 25th May 2020 with the outgoing head of state’s handpicked successor Evariste Ndayishimiye poised to be declared the winner.
The announcement is set for 2:00pm (1200 GMT), according to an official press invitation received Sunday.
The definitive results will be published on June 4.
Burundi’s opposition leader Agathon Rwasa is claiming an early victory in the country’s first presidential election in five years.
Longtime president Pierre Nkurunziza decided not to run again, giving voters a choice between his hand-picked would-be successor, Secretary-General, Evariste Ndayishimiye – Rwasa and five others.
The opposition boycotted the 2015 election that turned bloody after President Nkurunziza won a third term.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
