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By CM with AFP
La France “takes note of the result” of Sunday’s referendum in Congo on the adoption of a new Constitution which enables the President Denis Sassou Nguesso to run again in 2016, said the French Foreign Ministry .
“Result Score”. “We take note of the result,” commented laconically spokesman of the Quai d’Orsay, Romain Nadal. The new Congolese Constitution draft was approved by 92.96% of the vote and a turnout of 72.44%, according to official results announced Tuesday, and immediately denounced by the opposition as a “cheating”.
Suspicions-fixing. Saturday 24 Pascal Mabiala Tsaty, a leader of the opposition, which had called for a boycott of the polls, had estimated that participation had not exceeded “10%”. Denis Sassou Nguesso has suffered “a blow”, he declared, “the Congolese have not moved, it was the motto we gave.”
According to the observations of several journalists in Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire, the second largest city in the south, and the information gathered in several other major cities in various regions, voters seem to have largely shunned the polls Sunday.
31 years as head of the country The Constitution draft submitted to referendum on Sunday blasted the two locks prohibiting Denis Sassou Nguesso to run for a third presidential term in 2016. the age limit and the number mandates. Returned to power by force in 1997, Denis Sassou Nguesso, who led Congo from 1979 to 1992, has more than 31 years at the helm of the country.
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