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Burundi: the continuous arm-wrestling

By on July 1, 2010
The war of figures has already begun in Burundi, practically from the closure of polling stations on June 28th, late in the afternoon.

“All day long, we had noticed an influx rather low in front of all the polling stations of Bujumbura and its neighborhood”, has declared the opposition, grouped together within the Alliance for the Democratic Change (ADC). They have been contesting the result of the primaries, boycotted the presidential election, thus claimed victory from Monday evening, and congratulated the Burundian people for their determination to say “No” to the dictatorship, launched the opposition spokesman, Léonard Nyangoma, stating the following reason: “ADC has noticed and took note of the very low participation of the Burundians in this electoral masquerade, and the rate is hardly about 30 % ”.
The answer of the electoral Commission (CNEI) rang as a slap.  Its president, Prosper Ntahorwamiye, took the opposition to the word, and called it to prove the assertions. He voiced that “in many provinces, especially inside the country, the participation rate is 80 % and more. In city hall of Bujumbura we spoke about a 40 % rate, it is in one polling station. When the time comes, we shall ask the ADC to prove the credibility of the 30% participation rate, and where does it come from”.
For now, everybody has to wait for the temporary results proclamation to be announced by June 30th. But the opposition already declared that it will never recognise a president stemming from an election boycotted by a wide part of the population…

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