President Ange-Felix Patasse was elected to another six-year term with 51.6 percent of the votes, news agencies said on Saturday. According to official results of the 19 September election announced by the Constitutional Court in Bangui, the main runners-up among Patasse’s nine challengers were former presidents Andre Kolingba and David Dacko, who received 19.3 percent and 11.15 percent of the votes, respectively. As Patasse won over 50 percent of the votes, no second round of voting will be required. “I wish to express all my gratitude and my sincere thanks to all those who supported the ideals of peace, unity, social justice, solidarity, democracy and good governance which I had proposed to them,” Patasse, a 63-year-old agricultural engineer first elected president in 1993, was quoted as saying after Saturday’s victory announcement.
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