With over 90% of the ballots from last week’s contentious election now tabulated, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, a member of the ruling South West Africa People’s Organization (Swapo), is poised to become Namibia’s first female president.
According to the electoral commission, she received over 58% of the vote, while Panduleni Itula, her closest opponent, received slightly more than 25%.
However, Itula declared on Saturday that his party will not accept the results, claiming election malpractice, after logistical issues and a three-day extension to voting in some regions of the nation.
Since gaining independence in 1990, Swapo has dominated the vast but thinly populated southern African nation.
It had taken the lead in the fight for national independence from South Africa’s apartheid regime.
