Opposition secures landslide victory in Mauritius election
Al Jazeera
Former Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has won a third term in the Indian Ocean nation, official results show.
Opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam has won a landslide victory in Mauritius’s parliamentary vote, the election commission said.
The Office of the Electoral Commissioner said on Tuesday that Rangoolam and his Alliance of Change (ADC) coalition won 62.6 percent of the vote, securing the three-time former prime minister a fourth term.
The ADC won 60 of 62 seats in the National Assembly, state broadcaster Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation reported.
“The court of the people has delivered its verdict and a new Mauritius awakes,” 77-year-old Rangoolam said to crowds of supporters amid boisterous cheers and blaring horns.
Ramgoolam served as prime minister from 1995 to 2000 and again from 2005 to 2014.
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