{"id":56897,"date":"2026-01-20T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/car-constitutional-council-validates-touadera-s-presidential-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:21:48","slug":"car-constitutional-council-validates-touadera-s-presidential-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/car-constitutional-council-validates-touadera-s-presidential-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"CAR Constitutional Council validates Touadera\u2019s presidential victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Touadera, who secured 77.90 percent of the vote, will serve a seven-year term, the Constitutional Council announced at an official ceremony in the capital, Bangui.<\/p>\n<p>Other contenders in the presidential election were former prime ministers Anicet-Georges Dologuele and Henri-Marie Dondra, who came second and third respectively, according to provisional results released by the country&#8217;s electoral body, the National Elections Authority.<\/p>\n<p>About 2.3 million voters were registered for the elections, according to the National Elections Authority. Observers said that the elections &#8220;were largely peaceful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Touadera held a rally with his supporters in Bangui shortly after the final results were announced. He thanked his supporters, urging unity with the other candidates for the reconstruction of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Touadera, 68, focused his campaign on restoring peace and enhancing national development. In the build-up to the election, he signed peace deals with some major rebel groups.<\/p>\n<p>Touadera, who has been in office since 2016, will begin his third term as president following the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Voters also cast their ballots in the Central African Republic&#8217;s legislative, regional, and municipal elections on Dec. 28, 2025.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-100819\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/qalqwfw7hq2rn4kx.jpg\" alt=\"Incumbent President Faustin-Archange Touadera greets the public after the announcement of the presidential election final results in Bangui, Central African Republic, Jan. 19, 2026.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitutional Council of the Central African Republic on Monday proclaimed the final results of the Dec. 28, 2025, presidential election, declaring incumbent President Faustin-Archange Touadera re-elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000100820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000100820,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/qalqwfw7hq2rn4kx.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/qalqwfw7hq2rn4kx.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/qalqwfw7hq2rn4kx.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/qalqwfw7hq2rn4kx.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/qalqwfw7hq2rn4kx.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/qalqwfw7hq2rn4kx.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000100820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56897"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56897"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}