Police arrest defeated presidential hopeful and former military colonel Soilihi Mohamed
The opposition has flatly rejected Azali’s victory as the angry mood threatened to spark a new political crisis on the Indian Ocean archipelago.
Azali led a coup, then ruled the country between 1999 and 2006, and was re-elected in 2016, left his 12 poll rivals trailing.Both observers and community groups have questioned the credibility of the election, which saw Azali declared the winner with almost 61%Polling stations were ransacked, ballot boxes were stuffed by police and observers were prevented from overseeing the integrity of the vote, according to several witnesses.
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