BY IGNATIUS SSUUNA
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — President Paul Kagame has won 99% of the vote in provisional results from Monday’s presidential election in Rwanda, electoral authorities said, an outcome that was widely expected as the country’s long-time ruler aims to extend this three-decade grip on power.
Kagame’s opponents — Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda and independent candidate Philippe Mpayimana — were collectively getting under 1% of the vote in provisional results accounting for 79% of all ballots cast.
The result mirrored the outcome in 2017, when Kagame took nearly 99% of the vote.
Final results are expected by July 27, although they could be announced sooner.
The 66-year-old Kagame, who has held power since the end of the country’s genocide in 1994, was running virtually unopposed. Two of his stronger critics were blocked from running for high office.
There were long lines at some polling
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