The Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS), in power since 2011 in Niger, won the municipal elections on December 13, according to provisional results released Tuesday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (Céni).
The PNDS won 1,799 municipal council seats out of the 4,246 seats allocated in the country's 266 municipalities.
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It is followed by the National Movement for the Development Society (MNSD, independent 358 seats), the party of the late President Mamadou Tandja, led by Seini Oumarou, and by the Patriotic Movement for the Republic (MPR, ally in power) of the Minister of Agriculture Albadé Abouba, which won 356 seats.
The Nigerian Democratic Movement (Moden, opposition) led by former Prime Minister Hama Amadou won 268 seats.
The Ceni contented itself with providing results in the total number of seats at the national level, without specifying the results city by city.
The Ceni did not give results for the regional elections, held on the same day as the municipal ones.
These local elections, postponed several times since 2011, precede the presidential election of December 27.
Among the other parties, the Nigerian Patriotic Movement (MPN, opposition) of the former head of diplomacy Ibrahim Yacouba won 151 seats, the Paix Justice Progrès party (PJP, independent) of the former head of the junta, General Salou Djibo, won 146 seats, and the Democratic and Republican Rally (RDR, opposition) of former President Mahamane Ousmane 139 seats.
Many voters living in areas affected by the jihadist attacks that have hit the west and south-east of the country since 2015 could not be registered, according to the Ceni.
For the presidential election, in which the current head of state Mahamadou Issoufou is not running, thirty candidates are in the running, including Mohamed Bazoum, designated dolphin of the president.
The former Minister of the Interior and Foreign Affairs is considered a key man in power under the presidency of Mahamadou Issoufou.
This presidential election is supposed to ensure the very first transmission of power without violence in the history of Niger, a former French colony.
Former Prime Minister and former Speaker of Parliament Hama Amadou, 70, considered a serious challenger, was dismissed from the race by the Constitutional Court due to his 2017 sentence to one year in prison in a trafficking case. babies.
He called his conviction a policy.