# Touadera Wins Third Term as Central African Republic President With Nearly 78% of Vote

> The Constitutional Council confirmed the incumbent's outright majority after a December election marred by an opposition boycott and condemnation from critics who say a 2023 referendum simply erased the country's term limits.

- Source: African Economy
- Canonical URL: https://africaneconomy.net/article/touadera-re-elected-central-african-republic-president
- Author: African Economy Staff
- Section: Policy & Governance
- Published: 2026-10-21T11:14:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T11:14:00.000Z
- Tags: Central African Republic, Faustin-Archange Touadera, election, term limits

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Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera has won a third term in office, securing an outright majority with 77.9 percent of the vote in the country's December 28 election, according to a report by Guardian Nigeria. The country's Constitutional Council formally proclaimed Touadera re-elected after certifying the results, which put runner-up Anicet-Georges Dologuele at around 15 percent and third-place finisher Henri-Marie Dondra at roughly 3 percent. Turnout stood at about 52 percent.

Touadera, a 68-year-old mathematician who first took power a decade ago, was able to seek a third term after a 2023 constitutional referendum scrapped the country's presidential term limits, a change critics said was engineered specifically to keep him in office. Part of the opposition called for a boycott of the December vote, describing it as a sham conducted without genuine political dialogue between the government and its rivals.

With the Constitutional Council's certification now final, Touadera begins a new seven-year term under a cloud of contested legitimacy among opposition figures who argue the removal of term limits, rather than the vote itself, settled the outcome well before polling day.

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