{"id":43997,"date":"2026-01-06T17:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=43997"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:01:49","slug":"touadera-secures-new-term-in-central-african-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=43997","title":{"rendered":"Touad\u00e9ra Secures New Term in Central African Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bangui, Central African Republic<\/strong> \u2013 Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra has won another term as President of the Central African Republic, according to preliminary results announced by the National Elections Authority. The incumbent president secured 76.15% of the vote in the election held on December 28, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>His main challenger, Anicet-Georges Dologu\u00e9l\u00e9, came in second place with 14.66% of the vote, while former Prime Minister Henri-Marie Dondra finished third with 3.19%. Voter turnout was reported at 52.43%.<\/p>\n<p>The election encompassed presidential, legislative, regional, and municipal polls. The Constitutional Court is scheduled to announce the final results in mid-January after reviewing potential appeals.<\/p>\n<p>Touad\u00e9ra, who was first elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2020 in a vote marred by fraud allegations, has faced increasing criticism since the adoption of a new constitution in 2023, which allows him to remain in power. <\/p>\n<p>Dologu\u00e9l\u00e9 has disputed the results, claiming victory and alleging \u201cserious irregularities.\u201d Observers from the African Union described the election as \u201ccalm.\u201d A spokesperson for President Touad\u00e9ra dismissed these allegations as \u201cbaseless,\u201d warning against the risk of \u201cinciting chaos.\u201d Dondra has called for a \u201ccomplete annulment of the electoral process,\u201d accusing the National Elections Authority of being \u201cincapable of organizing a fair election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Opposition parties boycotted the election<\/em>, denouncing the process as a \u201csham\u201d and accusing state institutions, including the National Elections Authority and the Constitutional Court, of being under the control of the ruling power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">More Algeria articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangui, Central African Republic \u2013 Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra has won another term as President of the Central African Republic, according to preliminary results announced by the National Elections Authority. The incumbent president secured 76.15% of the vote in the election held &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43999,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43997\/revisions\/43999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}