Rwanda's Paul Kagame cruises to crushing election victory (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

I’m sure it was a free, fair and open election where all candidates had equal opportunity to campaign and run and no groups were restricted from voting as they wished /s.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

Partial results issued by the election commission seven hours after polls closed showed Kagame had surpassed the 98.79% of the vote he got in the previous election seven years ago.

The Democratic Green party candidate, Frank Habineza, mustered only 0.53% and the independent Philippe Mpayimana 0.32%, according to the results issued with 79% of ballots counted.

Clearly it was free and fair and he's just that popular.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

Funny how there’s no outrage in western media about this guy and his elections… wonder who he’s buddies with, and does the bidding for in the region… 🤔

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

The Conservative government in the UK were working with him to deport people attempting to enter the UK to Rwanda. So they were partners in cruelty, for a start. The new Labour government has said it is abandoning this.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

And the Tories were coming in for criticism for it. They basically did a run around the courts, which previously told them in no uncertain terms that Rwanda did not qualify as a safe country for asylum seekers.