Rwanda’s ruling coalition is leading with the highest number of seats in the legislative election with President Kagames Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), remaining largely dominant with more than 62% of the votes.<\/p>\n
Other historic parties, notably the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party, received nearly 11% and 9% of the votes respectively.<\/p>\n
Parties allied with the RPF, some of whose leaders are ministers, supported President Paul Kagame during the presidential campaign and followed him in his campaign meetings.<\/p>\n
The two groups outside the coalition and its allies, PS Imberakuri and the Democratic Green Party finished with a little over 5% of the votes, thus reaching the minimum threshold to obtain seats in Parliament.<\/p>\n
Following these proportional representation elections, the composition of the assembly is expected to change little compared to the one elected in 2018.<\/p>\n
The electoral commission has not yet provided the distribution of the number of deputies by political party.<\/p>\n
President Paul Kagame has won 99% of the vote in provisional results from Monday’s presidential election in Rwanda, electoral authorities said, an outcome widely expected as the country’s long-time ruler aims to extend this three-decade grip on power.<\/p>\n
Kagame’s opponents \u2014 Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda and independent candidate Philippe Mpayimana \u2014 were getting under 1% of the vote in provisional results accounting for 79% of all ballots cast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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