By RFIPalled on 02-09-2018Modified on 02-09-2018 at 04:01

Mauritanians went to the polls on Saturday to choose a new Parliament and municipal and regional councils. Election tests in terms of organization for the new Ceni, independent national electoral commission. In a press conference a few hours before the close of business, the leaders of 15 political parties, including opposition heavyweights, described the polls on 1 September as a fiasco.

Skewed voters looking for their polling station, also baffled by a complex system of multiple votes, criticized the organization of these elections .

While the polling stations were not yet closed, the opposition attacked Ceni. She was particularly pinned for her management of the polling stations and the electoral list in Nouakchott and in the interior of the country. " There are areas of shadows, there is a mess, there is a very clear manipulation of the electoral list. In some areas of the interior, there has been the displacement of entire sections of the list in some municipalities to other municipalities. In Nouakchott, we have seen the disappearance of entire polling stations , "said Mohamed ould Maouloud, president of the National Forum for Democracy and the FNDU.

The accusations of the opposition forum were rejected by the vice-president of Ceni Ethmane ould Bidiel. He explains about the two polling stations displaced in Nouakchott: " Two offices that were planned in localities or institutions, which were to be housed in some enclosures, and it was noted that these forecasts could not be respected because that classrooms are dilapidated, we do not want them to collapse on the voters' heads, but they have been moved right next door while providing information that allows citizens to know where to vote. "

The Ceni affirmed that the elections took place in calm and serenity in spite of some technical problems of organization.

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