Democratic Republic of Congo officials say they are delaying the announcement of the results of its presidential election until some time later this week.
The commission is holding a meeting Sunday about the delay.
Corneille Nangaa, head of the country’s electoral commission (CENI), said, “It is not possible to publish the results on Sunday. We are making progress, but we do not have everything yet.”
Nangaa said the commission had received only 47 percent of ballots from polling stations across the vast Central African country, which lacks a well-developed road network.
He also said the system of manually collecting and compiling vote totals is not helping the process. The electoral commission had planned to use the internet to collect vote totals. But it gave up those plans after the opposition alleged the system was vulnerable to fraud.
Nangaa did not say when the results would be ready or released.
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