adminANTANANARIVO. — The candidate to the run-off presidential election in Madagascar Jean Louis Robinson rejected yesterday the partial results published by the Independent National Election Commission. “I ask the CENIT to stop the counting first and compute again the results already published because results from our representatives and some embassies show I won with more than 50 percent,” Jean Louis Robinson who competed the run-off with Hery Rajaonarimampianina declared yesterday during a Press conference in Antananarivo.
Asked by Xinhua during the Press conference how to prevent a post electoral crisis, Jean Louis Robinson said “if there’s a post electoral crisis, it’s not from our camp, but from their camp because we largely won the election.”
Robinson has accused CENIT of fraud.
Robinson, supported by former president Marc Ravalomanana, pointed the CENIT president Atallah Beatrice as inclining to Hery Rajaonarimampianina, candidate supported by the president of transition Andry Rajoelina.
The latest results published by the CENIT showed Rajaonarimampianina took the lead with 52,15 percent against 47,85 percent of Jean Louis Robinson, in 6 158 polling stations out of 20 001 throughout the country, with a participation rate of 49,75 percent of the 7,9 million of voters recorded.
However, African Union, EU, the Southern African Development Community and other international observers expressed their satisfaction with the elections process, and think the poll was transparent. — Xinhua.
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