2024 Comorian presidential election
14 January 2024
 
Candidate Azali Assoumani Salim Issa Abdillah Aboudou Soefou
Party CRC Juwa Party TSASI
 
Candidate Mohamed Daoudou Mouigni Baraka Bourhane Hamidou
Party Orange Party RDCE Independent
President before election

Azali Assoumani
CRC

 Elected President

TBD

Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in the Comoros on 14 January 2024.[1][2]

Electoral system

Until 2018, the presidency of the Comoros rotated between the country's three main islands; Anjouan, Grande Comore and Mohéli. The 2010 elections were limited to Mohélian candidates and the 2016 elections saw candidates from Grand Comore contest the elections.[3] The next presidential election would have seen a president elected from Anjouan.

However, a constitutional referendum in July 2018 saw voters approve constitutional amendments that scrapped the rotation system and instituted a standard two-round system in which a candidate has to receive a majority of the vote in the first round to be elected, with a second round held if no candidate is able to win in the first round.[4] The changes also moved the next presidential elections forward to 2019 and allowed incumbent President Azali Assoumani run for a second term.[5]

The referendum led to violent protests and an armed uprising in Anjouan in October 2018, which was stopped by the military after several days.[6]

Results

CandidateParty
Azali AssoumaniConvention for the Renewal of the Comoros
Salim Issa AbdillahJuwa Party
Aboudou SoefouTSASI
Mohamed DaoudouOrange Party
Mouigni BarakaDemocratic Rally of the Comoros for Equality
Bourhane HamidouIndependent
Total

References

  1. ↑ "Comoros to hold presidential election on January 14". Africanews. 2023-10-05. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  2. ↑ "Comoros To Hold Presidential Vote On January 14". Barrons. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  3. ↑ Comoros: Government Global Edge
  4. ↑ Comoros: Presidential elections scheduled for March 2019 Garda World, 31 December 2018
  5. ↑ Africa’s top trouble spots in 2019 mapped The East African, 6 January 2019
  6. ↑ Comoros army regains control in Anjouan after uprising: minister Archived 2019-06-16 at the Wayback Machine News 24, 21 October 2018
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