# Interior Ministry records Guelleh at 97 percent class after a boycotted poll

Date: 2021

## The fact

On 10 April 2021 Djibouti’s Interior Ministry recorded [Ismail Omar Guelleh](/people/ismail-omar-guelleh) winner of the 9 April presidential election with over 97 percent of votes cast against Zakaria Ismail Farah (2.48 percent in ministry data). Most of the opposition boycotted. Farah told Reuters the result was “far from reality” and alleged stuffing after his delegates were barred. This page does not invent a unique stuffing integer.

## Context

He ran. Interior tabulated. Farah is unresolved.

9 April poll; 10 April Interior data. Stored as one 10 April 2021 Fact. Keep Interior Ministry records Guelleh at 97 percent class after a boycotted poll on 2021-04-10 separate from neighbouring 2021, age-cap, and 2026 instruments.

The president of Djibouti is head of state. He can run, accept an Interior Ministry return, and benefit from a Constitutional Council proclamation. He does not write the Council judgment, and he does not invent a unique stuffing integer here.

## Evidence and sources

Reuters (recording Interior Ministry) carries the official instrument or communique. The Africa Report records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is electoral integrity: a completed 97 percent-class certification after a boycott.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Interior Ministry recorded over 97 percent on 10 April 2021. Farah alleged stuffing.

Not established: A unique stuffing integer, or that 97 percent is an ODIHR competitive finding.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Interior tabulated. Sharing tabulation is not a reason to drop the certification.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Interior Ministry records Guelleh at 97 percent class after a boycotted poll, not a later speech about Interior Ministry records Guelleh at 97 percent class after a boycotted poll.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Interior Ministry records Guelleh at 97 percent class after a boycotted poll on 2021-04-10 is not a licence to treat every later Reuters (recording Interior Ministry) communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Interior Ministry records Guelleh at 97 percent class after a boycotted poll into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ran and was certified. Interior tabulated. Sharing tabulation is not a reason to drop the certification. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Ismail Omar Guelleh: https://factrail.ai/people/ismail-omar-guelleh

## Drivers

- Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness

## Sources

- https://www.theafricareport.com/79353/djibouti-ismail-omar-guelleh-wins-5th-term-with-97-44-of-vote/
- https://www.reuters.com/world/djiboutis-president-guelleh-wins-fifth-term-with-97-votes-2021-04-10/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/dj-guelleh-election-2021