BRAZZAVILLE – Congo-Brazzaville will hold its second presidential election since the end of its civil war on July 12, with veteran incumbent Denis Sassou Nguesso expected to run for another seven-year term.
The date was released yesterday in a presidential decree.
‘The electoral body is called for Sunday, July 12, 2009 for the first round of the election for president of the republic throughout the entire country,’ said the decree, signed on May 8 by Sassou Nguesso.
The government had previously said that the election would take place in the first half of July but had not set a date.
More than a dozen presidential hopefuls have already announced their candidacy. While Sasso Nguesso has yet to declare his intention to run again, his entourage have indicated that he will be a candidate.
Sasso Nguesso first came to power in the former French colony in 1979 and has been president for all but five years of the last three decades.
– Nampa-AFP
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