Windhoek — Voting at the Swapo elective congress yesterday started just before 17h00, when the party had initially planned to announce the results at that very hour during the closing ceremony.
Congress started on Thursday last week, with voting to decide the party's top-four leaders topping the agenda. Over 80 members of the central committee were also to be elected last night. Those presiding over elections told journalists that voting and counting of votes would take not less than three hours. If the results necessitated a second round of voting - often the case when no presidential candidate has scored more than 50 percent of the votes - completion of the process would take even longer.
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