Martin Ziguélé has demanded the manual recount of votes.

The electoral process in the Central African Republic continues to evolve with candidates  who are dissatisfied with some aspects of the first round of last  December 30 presidential  election as well as the legislative election  filing complaints at the Constitutional Court.

Martin Ziguélé the  elections body,  National Elections Authority declared as occupying the fourth position in the presidential election, said he filed a petition at the Constitutional Court. RFI  cited him as saying in  a press release  in the capital Bangui  on Sunday, January 10, 2016 that he would want the Constitutional Court to order for the manual recount of the votes and also the checking of the all aspects in the electoral chain.

He said the results sheets handed to the representatives of the various candidates were on unsigned papers. He also complained that there were discrepancies between the result sheets forwarded to the National Elections Authority and the partial results declared. He said the typed and published results were completely different from those handed to the representatives of candidates.

Martin Ziguélé’s Movement for the Liberation of the People of the Central African Republic (MLPC)  has accused the National Elections Authority of having violated the Electoral Code. This is because the institution kept on publishing general results trends every day mixing results from the different administrative units thereby making it impossible to follow up and check the results. The party stated that it is impossible for each candidate to verify that the votes per head, constituency and polling station  have  been effectively  and wholly  counted.

The party officials decried what they called the manipulation and confiscation of the expression of the sovereignty of the people. They stated that in the past the vices have been the main causes of instability and regression in the country. MLPC supporters were however, called to be calm as they wait for the proclamation of the final results by the Constitutional Court.

Martin Ziguélé, hitherto considered as a heavy weight in the election, was declared to have occupied the fourth position scoring only 10.8 per cent of the votes cast.