Niger Opposition Leader Issoufou Wins Presidential Runoff
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Niger’s opposition leader, Mahamadou Issoufou, won the March 12 presidential runoff vote, election commission Chairman Abdourahamane Ghousmane said.
Issoufou won 1,820,659 votes, or about 58 percent, defeating Seini Oumarou, the leader of former President Mamadou Tandja’s party, according to provisional results announced by Ghousmane today in Niamey, the capital. The Constitutional Council will announce final results by April 1, he said.