{"id":22019,"date":"2026-01-06T06:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/cars-president-touadera-wins-third-term-with-over-76-of-vote\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:07","slug":"cars-president-touadera-wins-third-term-with-over-76-of-vote","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/cars-president-touadera-wins-third-term-with-over-76-of-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"CAR\u2019s President Touadera wins third term with over 76% of vote \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Provisional results from the Central African Republic\u2019s (CAR) electoral commission indicate that President Faustin-Archange Touadera has won a third term, securing an outright majority in the presidential election held on December 28.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The results, announced by the CAR\u2019s top election official, Mathias Morouba, show Touadera receiving 76.15% of the vote. Former Prime Minister Anicet-Georges Dologuele trailed with 14.66%, while another former Prime Minister, Henri-Marie Dondra, garnered 3.19%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old President, who first took office in the CAR a decade ago, had been seeking a third term following a 2023 constitutional referendum that removed presidential term limits.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22020,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-22019","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Provisional results from the Central African Republic\u2019s (CAR) electoral commission indicate that President Faustin-Archange Touadera has won a third term","published_date":"2026-01-06 08:51:52","news_description":"Provisional results from the Central African Republic\u2019s (CAR) electoral commission indicate that President Faustin-Archange Touadera has won a third term","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25461,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22019\/revisions\/25461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}