Rwanda’s Paul Kagame sleep-walks to fourth term, gulps 99% of votes
Rwanda President, Paul Kagame has now secured a third consecutive re-election into office, winning an outrageous 99.2% percent of votes from the country’s just-concluded 2024 presidential election to secure a fourth term in office.
This is with Rwanda’s electoral body stating that only about 79% of ballots have been counted.
Authorities said 9.5 million out of 14 million Rwandans registered to vote.
Kagame, 64, is qualified to continue in office till 2034 after a constitutional amendment in 2015 eliminated a two-term limit.
Kagame’s opposition: Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party and Independent candidate Philippe Mpayimana, received less than one percent each in the provisional results.
The result is the same as in 2017 when Kagame packed nearly 99% of the votes too.
Final results are expected by July 27, although they could be announced sooner.
Kagame seized power as the head of rebels who took control of the government and ended the genocide in 1994, becoming vice-president and de facto leader from then to 2000, when he became president.
