Afrigather Comoros’ Supreme Court docket on Thursday authorised plans by incumbent President Azali Assoumani to run for one more time period within the subsequent election due on January 14.
Assoumani might be working for a fourth time period, after successful his third election in 2019.
He’ll face 9 opponents, in response to a listing of candidates authorised by the Supreme Court docket.
These includea former inside minister and Salim Issa, a medical physician and flagbearer for Juwa, the celebration of ex-president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi who was in 2022 sentenced to life imprisonment for “excessive treason.”
The election is going through a attainable boycott by opponents who say the electoral course of lacks transparency and they’re going to solely take part if sure situations, akin to the discharge of political prisoners, are met.
The small archipelago nation located within the Indian Ocean has a inhabitants of simply 800,000. It has seen greater than 20 coups or tried coups since independence from France within the Nineteen Seventies.
Assoumani, a former military officer,first got here to energy in a coup in 1999.
