Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, of the South West African People’s Organization (Swapo), seems set to turn into Namibia’s first feminine president with greater than 90% of votes from final week’s disputed election now counted.
The electoral fee mentioned he received greater than 58%, along with his closest rival Panduleni Itula getting simply over 25% of the vote.
But attributable to logistical issues and a three-day extension of elections in some components of the nation, Itula mentioned on Saturday his party would not recognize the results for alleged electoral malpractice.
Swapo has been in energy within the giant however sparsely populated southern African nation since independence in 1990.
A celebration stalwart, Nandi-Ndaitwah, who’s presently the vp, is a trusted chief who has held excessive authorities positions for 1 / 4 of a century.
Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania is Africa’s solely feminine president, so Nandi-Ndaitwah would be part of an unique membership if she wins.
To keep away from a run-off within the second spherical, a candidate wants greater than 50% of the vote to be declared the winner.
An skilled dentist, Itula, from the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), is taken into account extra charismatic than Nandi-Ndaitwah and managed to dent Swapo’s recognition within the final presidential election in 2019, decreasing his vote share to 56% from ‘87% of 5. years earlier than.
The IPC mentioned it might “pursue justice via the courts” and inspired individuals who believed that they had been unable to vote attributable to mishandling by the electoral fee to strategy the police to make a press release.
Swapo led the nation’s combat towards apartheid in South Africa. Before final Wednesday’s normal elections there was hypothesis that it might undergo the destiny of the opposite liberation events within the area.
South Africa’s African National Congress misplaced its total parliamentary majority in May and Botswana’s Democratic Party was ousted from energy in practically six many years after elections in October.
