President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has won the presidential elections in the West African nation, with over 56 percent of the vote.
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has won the country’s presidential election, according to provisional results from over 99.27% of polling stations released by the West African nation’s electoral commission Sunday.
Ghazouani was re-elected in the Saturday election with over 56% of the vote, results from 4,468 polling stations out of 4,503 showed on Mauritania’s independent electoral commission’s website.
The 67-year-old former army chief of staff and defense minister, who was first elected in 2019, has pledged to boost investment to spur a commodities boom in the West African country of 5 million people, as it prepares to start producing natural gas by the end of the year.
