Presidential election 2015 - Third round unlikely but not impossible |10 December 2015

It has been announced that more details on the forthcoming second round presidential run-off will be published in the Official Gazette this week.

Meanwhile, in an interview with the SBC TV Attorney General Rony Govinden has said the law does not provide for a third round in a very unlikely scenario where both candidates taking part in the run-off come out with the same number of votes.

But he pointed out that in case of such a distinct possibility and there is a deadlock the Electoral Commission will have to announce a third round of voting.

Meanwhile, the atmosphere remains calm as people go about their normal activities while they wait to go to the polls again starting Wednesday next week.

After none of the six candidates could pull off the 50% plus one vote for an outright majority in the first round of the December 3-5, 2015 presidential election, a run-off is necessary to decide who between Parti Lepep’s James Michel and Seychelles National Party’s (SNP) Wavel Ramkalawan will become the next President.

The two men secured the most votes in the first round.

Out of the 70,943 eligible voters, there were a total of 62,004 votes cast among which 60,538 were valid votes and 1,466 rejected ballots. The voter turnout was 87.4%.

Incumbent President Michel won 28,911 votes (47.76%), while Mr Ramkalawan scored 21,391 votes (35.33%).