Burundi's leading opposition party will start filing challenges to election results as early as Wednesday, a lawmaker told AFP as calm reigned in the commercial capital a day after the ruling party's candidate was named winner of the presidential contest.
Nkurunziza has been in power since 2005, and his final years in office have been wracked with turmoil.
Rwasa acted similarly during the unrest of 2015, unlike other members of the opposition, Moncrieff noted.The CNDD-FDD also defeated the CNL by a similar margin in the legislative elections. Yet the youth wing, known as the Imbonerakure, has already begun settling scores in the northwest province of Citiboke and elsewhere, witnesses told AFP.
It remains to be seen how much influence Nkurunziza will exert and how freely his successor can reign.
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