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Mr. Ban stressed that it would be essential to ensure the early holding of peaceful and credible presidential and legislative elections to allow for the swift return of constitutional order in Burkina Faso.
Barthelemy Kere, electoral commission president, said 60 percent of the country’s 5.5 million registered voters participated in Sunday’s election.
The two favorites for the job are Roch Marc Christian Kabore and Zephirin Diabre.
Kabore, who governed under former strongman Blaise Compaore before turning his back on the old regime, won the vote in the first round with 53.49 percent of ballots, the electoral commission said late Monday.
“As Burkina Faso awaits the results, the Secretary-General encourages all political leaders and national stakeholders to maintain the peaceful atmosphere that prevailed on Election Day”.
The October 2014 uprising ushered in a transition that ends with presidential and legislative elections on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015, the most hotly contested in the history of this West African nation.
The polls close at 18:00 GMT and electoral commission says provisional results must be known by today evening.
The previous leader, Blaise Compaore, had seized power by force and won four elections, all of which were criticized as flawed.
Mr. Kabore served as chairman of the Congress for Democracy and Progress party (CDP) before leaving it in 2014, after opposing plans to extend Mr. Compaore’s rule. If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round, a run-off vote will be held.
Halidou Ouedraogo, president of the CODEL, a group of civil society organizations that deployed 6,000 observers across the country, said no major incidents were observed.
Following opposition from the country’s military establishment, Kafando and Zida were released and the coup attempt failed.
