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#Election2019: Polls closed, what's next?

───   22:35 Wed, 08 May 2019

#Election2019: Polls closed, what's next? | News Article

Voting has been completed in most parts of the country. The IEC is now preparing to count the votes.


Provisional polling numbers will arrive by Thursday afternoon local time, according to IEC officials, with final results due to be announced on Saturday; South Africa's new president will be inaugurated on May 25.

This is the most hotly contested election in South African history, with a record 48 parties on the ballot, 19 more than last time around and nearly double the number that took part in the 1994 elections.

Commissioner, Mosotho Moepya explained the process used to ensure the elections are free and fair.

"They will start the process of verification. Party agents will look at ballot boxes. Counting officers will begin to present each one of those ballots boxes.

"They will begin to sort the ballots to the extent that there may be objections, there is also a process of dealing with those objections. Once that's sorted, then counting will begin."

South Africans came out in their numbers to cast their ballots on Wednesday, despite the rain and disruptions at some voting stations.


eNCA/Al Jazeera



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