Kagame re-elected with massive majority

Paul Kagame secured another seven-year term as Rwanda's president on Wednesday, after being declared the landslide winner of Monday's election. The official count gives the incumbent president 93 per cent of the vote, according to the electoral commission.

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Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo of the Social Democratic Party was second with 5.15 per cent of the vote.

The Liberal Party's Prosper Higiro won 1.37 per cent in third place.

Alvera Mukabaramba from the Party for Progress and Concord took less than half a per cent.

The European Union praised the "calm atmosphere and the very high turnout of voters" in Monday's poll, but expressed concern about "the serious incidents which marred the pre-electoral period", which it urged the authorities to investigate.

Observers from the Commonwealth, which Rwanda joined last year, said the campaign was marked by "a lack of critical opposition voices".

Several opposition parties were prevented from running by "legal or administrative problems", the mission said in a statement.

Kagame has dismissed the allegations and insists the vote was democratic.