Madagascar's candidate Jean Louis Robinson rejects results published by electoral body

Source:Xinhua Published: 2013-12-24 8:04:34

The candidate to runoff presidential election in Madagascar Jean Louis Robinson rejected on Monday the partial results published by the Independent National Election Commission (CENIT).

"I ask the CENIT to stop the counting first and compute again the results already published because results from our representatives and some Embassies show I won with more than 50 percent," Jean Louis Robinson who competed the runoff with Hery Rajaonarimampianina declared on Monday during a press conference in Antananarivo.

Asked by Xinhua during the press conference how to prevent a post electoral crisis Jean Louis Robinson said "if there's a post electoral crisis, it's not from our camp but from their camp because we largely won the election."

Accusing fraud from the CENIT and many frauds in the polling stations, Jean Louis Robinson said his camp will complaint to legal means and has a trust to the Special Electoral Court (CES), only competent on electoral litigation.

Jean Louis Robinson, supported by former president Marc Ravalomanana, pointed the CENIT president Atallah Beatrice as inclining to Hery Rajaonarimampianina, candidate supported by the president of transition Andry Rajoelina.

The latest results published by the CENIT showed Hery Rajaonarimampianina took the lead with 52.15 percent against 47.85 percent of Jean Louis Robinson, in 6158 polling stations out of 20001 throughout the country, with a participation rate of 49.75 percent of the 7.9 million of voters recorded in the country.

However, African Union, EU, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and other international observers expressed their satisfaction with the elections process, and think the poll was transparent.

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