Presidential elections were held in the

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on 7 November 2010, with a second round on 26 December, alongside gubernatorial elections for the three main islands. The result was a victory for

Ikililou Dhoinine Ikililou Dhoinine (, born 14 August 1962) is a Comorian politician who served as the ninth President of the Comoros from 2011 to 2016; he was Vice-President of the Comoros from 2006 to 2011. Political career Dhoinine won the 2010 Comorian pre ...

, who received 61% of the vote.

Background

There had been an attempt to delay the elections until 27 November 2011 and extend the presidential term until then. However, the Constitutional Court ruled this unconstitutional in May 2010.

Electoral system

In Comoros, the presidency rotates every four years between the federation's three constituent islands:

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Mohéli Mohéli , also known as Mwali, is an autonomously-governed island that forms part of the Union of the Comoros. It is the smallest of the three major islands in the country. It is located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa and it is the ...

and

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. This rotation was Mohéli's turn to supply the president. Incumbent president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi was from Anjouan, and was thus not able to stand as a candidate. The president was elected in two rounds; in the first round, voters in Mohéli voted in a

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, with the top three candidates advancing to the second round, where a nationwide vote was carried out, with the winner decided by

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Candidates

There were ten candidates in the presidential primary election. President Sambi supported his Vice President

. Another candidate from the Presidential Movement was Mohamed Larifou Oukacha, secretary-general of the presidency, showing a possible split in the Presidential faction. The other eight candidates were from the opposition. Among them were

Mohamed Said Fazul Mohamed Said Fazul is Comorian politician and twice President and Governor of Mohéli. He was born in 1960 in Boingoma in Mohéli. He worked as a pharmacist and taught natural sciences at a Fomboni college. He was director of the Islamic Co ...

, former governor of Mohéli, and Zahariat Saïd Ahmed, the sole female candidate.

Results

Ikililou Dhoinine, Mohamed Said Fazul and Bianrifi Tarmidhi received the most votes in the first round primary. However, Tarmidhi's total number of votes was cut down on 13 November by the constitutional court after it had decided to invalidate the ballots from several polling stations. This meant that, besides Dhoinine and Fazul, Abdou Djabir advanced to the second round.

References

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