Adama Barrow re-election president of Gambia | Election Issues

Before all results were created late Sunday, three of Barrow’s players denied any results.

Adama Barrow has won the second round of Gambia’s presidential election, with thousands celebrating and protesting against the results.

Barrow received 53 percent of the vote, according to results released by the Electoral Commission on Sunday.

His main opponent Ousainou Darboe won 27.7 percent.

Chairman of the Electoral Commission Alieu Momarr Njai declared Barrow the winner, announcing the final results to reporters after hours of running for office.

Crowds of Barrow’s followers marched through the streets of Banjul to the sound of trumpets and danced in many places.

Barrow received a standing ovation when he spoke to them “with great joy and humility” and told them to respect those who voted for his enemies “a free, fair and transparent election”.

“I will do my best and use whatever I have to make the Gambia a better place for all of us,” he said.

Before all results were announced, three of Barrow’s players denied any results.

“At the moment, we are rejecting the results that have been announced so far,” Darboe and two other nominees said in a statement. “Everything is on the table.”

Saturday’s election, the first since the mighty former Yahya Jammeh escaped from captivity in 2017, looks like. essential for West African youth democracy.

Jammeh refused to accept Barrow’s defeat in the December 2016 elections.

Gambian people gathered at the polls on Saturday to choose who will lead their country – the smallest in Africa – for the next five years, with 87 percent of voters, according to government results.

Earlier on Sunday, Ernest Bai Koroma, head of the electoral body from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), called on all those who want to “accept the results of the election by faith”.

The election is widely regarded as a test of Gambian democratic change, which Jammeh ruled for 22 years after he took office without bloodshed in 1994.

He was deported to Equatorial Guinea in January 2017 after Barrow, then an unidentified relative, defeated him in a ballot box.

Jammeh lost to Barrow in the 2016 election but was to be ousted by the West African military.