Some 2 million persons are registered to vote. Key points for them embrace preventing corruption and job creation for younger individuals.
If re-elected, Ghazouani has promised a gas-fired energy plant from the Larger Tortue Ahmeyin (GTA) offshore gasoline challenge, which is on observe to begin manufacturing by the top of the 12 months. He additionally pledged to spend money on renewable vitality and develop gold, uranium, and iron ore mining.
Ghazouani has presided over a interval of relative stability since 2019, as Mauritania’s Sahel neighbours, together with Mali, battle with Islamist insurgencies which have led to navy coups.
Mauritania has not recorded a militant assault on its soil lately and Ghazouani, who at present chairs the African Union, has promised to handle Islamist threats.
Distinguished activist Abeid is difficult Ghazouani on his human rights document and the marginalisation of Mauritania’s Black African inhabitants, whereas El Mokhtar has a following amongst conservative and spiritual voters.
Even so, Ghazouani “is prone to win a second time period, in all probability within the first spherical,” stated Carine Gazier, sub-Saharan Africa specialist on the Concerto consultancy.
