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Burundi's polls results to be published within 4 days: electoral commission

Xinhua, July 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

Provisional results for Monday's legislative and communal elections in Burundi will be available in four days because vote counting in two combined polls takes long, the National Independent Electoral Commission chairman told Xinhua on Tuesday.

"Provisional results for legislative elections will be available within three to four days and results for the communal elections will be available within two to three days," said Pierre Claver Ndayicariye, chairman of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI).

He indicated that teams of CENI officials were deployed to collect results of the polls at the provincial levels.

On Monday, Burundian citizens went to polls to elect 100 MPs for 18 provinces and 1,785 communal councilors for 119 communes, with 15 councilors for each communal entity.

However, the opposition boycotted the polls, arguing that the elections were not held in a favorable climate for fair, credible and inclusive elections.

The presidential election is due on July 15 and senatorial elections on July 24. Endi