United States Department of State (Washington, DC)

Burkina Faso: U.S. State Dept. on Burkina Faso Parliamentary, Local Elections

4 December 2012

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Office of the Spokesperson

STATEMENT BY MARK TONER, DEPUTY SPOKESPERSON

Burkina Faso Parliamentary and Local Elections

We congratulate the Burkinabe people on their peaceful participation in Sunday's parliamentary and local elections. Millions of voters across the country successfully cast their votes for more than 6,000 candidates for 127 seats in parliament and thousands of local races. We welcome initial reports that voting was generally peaceful and well-run. We encourage election officials to thoroughly investigate all reports of irregularities and we look forward to the announcement of official results on December 7.

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