{"id":95863,"date":"2020-11-01T07:01:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T01:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/tanzanias-magufuli-wins-landslide-re-election\/"},"modified":"2020-11-01T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T13:34:08","slug":"tanzanias-magufuli-wins-landslide-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/tanzanias-magufuli-wins-landslide-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania\u2019s Magufuli Wins Landslide Re-election\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has officially won a second term, with a landslide victory of more than 84% of the vote in this week\u2019s election. His main opponent, Tundu Lissu, earned 13% of the vote, according to the official count. Tanzania\u2019s citizens have accepted the results.<\/p>\n
Announcing the votes Friday in Dar es Salaam, the chairperson of the National Electoral Commission, Semistocles Kaijage, said 15 million of 29 million registered voters went to the polls.<\/p>\n
Dar es Salaam resident Juma Mfaume, a 36-year-old bus driver and President John Magufuli supporter, said as the count was coming in, it was obvious Magufuli should win a second term.<\/p>\n
He said he deserved to win because citizens are all seeing all that he has done, said Mfaume, adding that he has managed to encourage even those who were not his followers to support him.<\/p>\n
Another Magufuli supporter, 29-year-old businessman Edward Mbise, said he is extremely happy about the results.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was just normal. We all expected to win due to what he has done he was going to win this election,\u201d he said. Mbise adds that Magufuli has accomplished so many things that you can\u2019t even finish listing all of them.<\/p>\n
Magufuli\u2019s main challenger, Tundu Lissu, of the Party for Democracy and Progress, or Chadema, said the election was full of fraud, and he called on the international community not to accept the results.<\/p>\n