# NEC records Kagame re-elected with 99.18 percent; sworn 11 August 2024 Date: 2024 ## The fact On 15 July 2024 Rwanda’s National Electoral Commission recorded [Paul Kagame](/people/paul-kagame) re-elected with 99.18 percent. He was sworn on 11 August 2024. AU–COMESA observed. ## Context He ran. NEC tabulated. Barred candidates, if named, need NEC/court dates. 2015 referendum; 15 July 2024 return; 11 August oath. Stored as one 2024 election Fact. Keep NEC records Kagame re-elected with 99.18 percent; sworn 11 August 2024 on 2024-07-15 separate from neighbouring M23, 2773, ballot, and mapping-report instruments. The president of Rwanda is head of state and commander-in-chief of the RDF. He can decree, run a 99 percent ballot, and open or close a cross-border file. He does not write UNSC resolutions, does not sit as a Johannesburg inquest magistrate, and does not author a unique DRC civilian death total invented here. ## Evidence and sources NEC Rwanda carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is electoral integrity: a completed 99.18 percent certification. ## What is established and what is not Established: NEC recorded 99.18 percent on 15 July 2024; Kagame was sworn on 11 August 2024. Not established: That AU–COMESA observation is an ODIHR competitive-election 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. NEC tabulated. Observers did not convert 99.18 percent into a competitive contest.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies NEC records Kagame re-elected with 99.18 percent; sworn 11 August 2024, not a later speech about NEC records Kagame re-elected with 99.18 percent; sworn 11 August 2024. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. NEC records Kagame re-elected with 99.18 percent; sworn 11 August 2024 on 2024-07-15 is not a licence to treat every later NEC Rwanda 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 NEC records Kagame re-elected with 99.18 percent; sworn 11 August 2024 into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ran and was certified. NEC tabulated. Observers did not convert 99.18 percent into a competitive contest. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Paul Kagame: https://factrail.ai/people/paul-kagame ## Drivers - Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/rwanda-election-kagame-2024-07-16/ - https://www.nec.gov.rw/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/rw-election-2024