2023 Mauritanian parliamentary election

Elections happened in Mauritania on 13 May 2023 and 27 May 2023. These elections happened to pick who was in the parliament. Elections for the leaders of municipalities and provinces happened too.

These were the first parliamentary elections after the 2019 presidential election. That election was the first time the president of Mauritania changed without a coup happening.

Behavior
CENI said while looking at the votes that it saw that someone messed with them in the El Mina department of Nouakchott. Some votes were moved from the null and neutral cards to one of the candidates. They said that they fixed it. Judicial procedures had happened after a candidate said that they did not like the results.

Results
Overall

National list results' per wilaya
 Party AD AS BR DN GO GU HC HG IN NN NO NS TA TZ TR  MRT El Insaf 37.42% 33.59% 37.54% 23.41% 28.49% 29.25% 40.13% 30.02% 46.30% 28.41% 26.00% 37.87% 49.67% 30.17% 48.70% 20.04% 35.26% Tewassoul 7.61% 17.13% 6.34% 7.93% 4.02% 6.18% 9.16% 13.33% 6.30% 16.32% 10.90% 14.26% 6.42% 10.71% 10.07% 20.25% 10.25% UDP 2.32% 2.19% 4.08% 4.07% 15.54% 25.50% 10.35% 6.60% 8.02% 2.71% 2.74% 1.82% 3.60% 4.87% 0.90% 4.03% 6.06% Sawab+ 1.96% 2.86% 1.88% 5.59% 3.75% 13.39% 1.55% 1.15% 2.72% 5.28% 3.98% 5.65% 0.88% 3.30% 4.86% 13.83% 4.10%Hope Mauritania 1.03% 0.79% 4.93% 4.77% 3.04% 1.55% 0.47% 0.77% 1.20% 3.84% 6.67% 8.02% 0.59% 8.73% 3.14% 5.50% 3.33% AND 2.22% 2.79% 1.01% 2.91% 6.26% 6.51% 2.59% 0.87% 2.76% 7.08% 4.50% 1.78% 1.99% 1.63% 3.55% 1.58% 3.30% El Islah 13.26% 3.34% 1.71% 2.17% 1.54% 0.48% 4.70% 5.34% 2.08% 2.80% 4.24% 2.15% 3.11% 10.71% 2.35% 2.65% 3.28% HATEM 1.76% 3.37% 0.98% 3.03% 0.38% 0.35% 5.74% 11.79% 1.54% 2.18% 2.07% 3.41% 1.43% 3.01% 1.32% 1.49% 2.90% El Karama 0.62% 0.46% 5.55% 13.07% 8.99% 0.96% 1.22% 1.35% 0.51% 0.94% 1.14% 1.67% 0.45% 0.37% 0.56% 1.05% 2.62% Nida El Watan 0.69% 8.03% 0.59% 0.73% 0.75% 0.24% 2.64% 7.00% 1.29% 1.32% 3.01% 1.31% 0.63% 1.12% 2.79% 1.35% 2.50% AJD/MR+ 0.37% 0.23% 6.50% 5.71% 4.42% 0.61% 0.15% 0.15% 1.46% 0.89% 3.08% 3.26% 0.09% 2.00% 0.35% 9.88% 2.18% HIWAR 6.48% 3.87% 3.44% 2.20% 1.76% 1.62% 3.10% 1.71% 1.85% 0.88% 0.60% 0.77% 0.88% 2.08% 1.41% 0.67% 2.08% PMM 3.87% 1.54% 0.66% 1.29% 0.46% 0.56% 1.97% 3.65% 1.26% 2.41% 4.07% 1.39% 1.43% 3.43% 3.35% 1.23% 2.08% PRDR 1.06% 5.70% 1.38% 2.38% 4.74% 0.18% 0.63% 1.93% 1.12% 1.97% 1.39% 0.94% 1.51% 0.94% 1.53% 1.10% 1.97% UFP 1.79% 2.97% 1.76% 1.69% 3.18% 1.41% 0.93% 1.04% 1.38% 2.02% 2.31% 1.91% 2.90% 1.58% 0.86% 1.16% 1.79% El Vadila 1.08% 2.13% 4.44% 0.81% 1.29% 2.37% 1.08% 2.27% 0.60% 1.82% 1.05% 0.99% 2.13% 1.53% 0.87% 1.81% 1.78% PUD 1.32% 0.65% 4.26% 0.99% 1.15% 0.42% 0.79% 3.40% 0.62% 1.93% 2.73% 0.83% 2.37% 0.70% 0.51% 1.63% 1.66% State of Justice 2.47% 0.73% 0.54% 1.95% 0.30% 0.27% 0.96% 0.81% 1.55% 2.38% 5.36% 1.75% 2.05% 2.24% 1.71% 2.35% 1.55% RFD 0.83% 0.61% 1.23% 3.68% 0.67% 0.14% 1.48% 0.90% 1.47% 2.89% 2.51% 1.09% 2.76% 1.09% 1.86% 3.23% 1.51% PSJN 1.89% 1.39% 3.64% 1.31% 4.61% 0.43% 0.94% 0.46% 0.46% 1.33% 0.89% 0.62% 1.55% 0.82% 0.32% 0.38% 1.48% El Ravah 2.94% 0.66% 0.98% 1.25% 0.36% 1.14% 1.28% 0.75% 1.00% 1.37% 1.51% 0.96% 10.04% 0.53% 1.54% 0.92% 1.43% APP 1.27% 0.56% 1.95% 1.47% 0.85% 1.77% 1.01% 0.55% 0.46% 1.91% 0.98% 2.58% 1.07% 2.52% 0.72% 0.67% 1.25% Ribat 1.45% 0.25% 0.41% 3.39% 0.31% 0.52% 0.91% 0.30% 10.62% 2.59% 2.39% 0.95% 0.57% 2.30% 0.45% 0.85% 1.07% PCP 0.72% 1.38% 1.13% 0.88% 0.60% 0.23% 1.19% 1.37% 0.57% 1.64% 1.33% 0.86% 0.42% 0.50% 0.61% 0.52% 0.96% CAP 0.33% 0.25% 0.23% 0.56% 0.45% 0.31% 0.25% 0.24% 0.30% 0.65% 1.18% 0.71% 0.19% 0.38% 3.75% 0.14% 0.91% Blank votes 3.24% 2.53% 2.84% 2.76% 2.09% 3.61% 4.78% 2.25% 2.56% 2.44% 3.37% 2.45% 1.27% 2.74% 1.92% 1.69% 2.70% Valid votes 81.73% 64.79% 79.47% 86.82% 76.72% 78.37% 51.47% 67.24% 85.86% 85.33% 85.43% 85.76% 77.95% 86.63% 86.10% 86.30% 75.88% Null votes 18.27% 35.21% 20.53% 13.18% 23.28% 21.63% 48.53% 32.76% 14.14% 14.67% 14.57% 14.24% 22.05% 13.37% 13.90% 13.70% 24.12% Turnout 71.27% 73.41% 76.82% 69.64% 77.37% 81.74% 75.69% 77.23% 61.24% 61.22% 61.46% 66.83% 74.15% 71.33% 67.58% 62.49% 71.59% Abstentions 28.73% 26.59% 23.18% 30.36% 22.63% 18.26% 24.31% 22.77% 38.76% 38.78% 38.54% 33.17% 25.85% 28.67% 32.42% 37.51% 28.41% Registered voters 53,331 164,442 180,078 66,423 135,491 91,826 198,099 152,255 19,789 120,387 141,914 119,367 55,836 28,182 236,739 22,289 1,786,448Source: National Independent Election Commission (CENI)

Aftermath
Election of the President of the National Assembly
The election of the President of the National Assembly happened on 19 June 2023. Mohamed Bemba Meguett was picked in the first round.
+Candidate Party Votes obtainedRequired majority → 89 out of 176 Mohamed Bemba Meguett 137  Ahmedou Mohamed Mahfoudh M'Balla 27 Abstentions2Null votes3Absentees7

Arrest of Biram Dah Abeid
Biram Dah Abeid was arrested on 24 May. He was the leader of the Democratic Alternation Coalition and re-elected deputy for Sawab+. He was arrested because he said that if the results of the elections are accepted, then "the free Mauritanians will carry weapons against the current regime" during a rally the day before. He also said in his speech that he was "committed to peace" but that he "wouldn't lie to the Mauritanian people" and that "election fraud was the reason the army couped former president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya".

Opposition parties RAG, Sawab, Hope Mauritania, the Union of the Forces of Progress, the Rally of Democratic Forces, and the People's Progressive Alliance said that the arrest was bad.

References

Category:Politics of Mauritania
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