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Middle East &Africa
中東和非洲板塊
Where dead men vote
死人在哪里投票
Burundi's sham election
布魯迪的假選舉
A landslide victory for the president's hand-picked successor
總統精心挑選的繼任者以壓倒性優勢獲勝
As peolple elsewhere hunkered down at home to avoid covid-19, millions in Burundi crowded into polling stations on May 20th to vote in the general election. Among the many voters were scores of dead people, activists allege. Humanrights watchdogs said that members of the ruling party, CNDD-FDD, boosted its tallies by adding the ballots of people locked up in jail-and of those who had died.
5月20日，當其他地方的人們蜷縮在家里躲避新冠肺炎時，布隆迪數百萬人涌入投票站參加大選投票。參與活動的人宣稱，其中有許多選民是死人。人權監督機構說，執政黨保衛民主全國委員會-保衛民主力量增加了被關在監獄里的人和死者的選票，從而提高了投票率。
"When I saw the same person voting for the third time I complained," says one voter. He was sent packing by officials and told to "stop creating problems".
一位選民說：“當我看到同一個人第三次投票時，我十分抱怨。”官員們把他打發走，叫他“別再制造麻煩了”。
Shenanigans such as these might explain why, for instance, in Bukeye in Muramvya province 4,000 more votes were cast than there were voters on the register. Another reason could be that some boxes already had papers in them when polling stations opened, suggests Aime Magera, spokesman for the National Freedom Council (CNL), an opposition party. Few in Burundi were surprised when the ruling party's candidate, Evariste Ndayishimiye, was declared the winner with 69% of the vote. Mr Ndayishimiye, an ex-general, was handpicked by Pierre Nkurunziza, the outgoing president who has ruled since 2005. Mr Nkurunziza is no stranger to controversy. In 2015 he won a third term, despite a constitutional limit of two. (He said his first term didn't count, as he was chosen by parliament, rather than directly elected.)
諸如此類的惡作劇或許可以解釋為什么，例如，在穆拉姆維亞省的布基，投票人數比登記冊上的選民多出4000票。反對黨國家自由委員會發言人艾梅·馬格拉表示，另一個原因可能是投票站開放時，一些投票箱里已經有了選票。當執政黨候選人恩達伊希米耶以69%的選票當選時，布隆迪幾乎沒有人感到驚訝。皮埃爾·恩庫倫齊扎這位已卸任的總統自2005年一直執政，他親手挑選了前總書記恩達伊希米耶。恩庫倫齊扎對爭議并不陌生。2015年，盡管憲法限制只能連任兩屆，但他還是贏得了第三屆。（他說他的第一個任期不算數，因為他是由議會選出的，而不是直接選舉產生的。）
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