2025 Central African general election

2025 Central African general election
28 December 2025
President before election

Faustin-Archange Touadéra
MCU

Elected President

TBD

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General elections are due to be held in the Central African Republic on 28 December 2025. Incumbent president Faustin-Archange Touadéra is eligible for reelection after presidential term limits were removed by a referendum in 2023.

Electoral system

The President of the Central African Republic is elected by a two-round system for a seven-year term, renewable. The candidate who receives an absolute majority of the votes cast in the first ballot is elected. If no majority is secured, a runoff is held between the top two candidates to decide the winner.[1][2]

Elections are set to be held in December 2025.[3] In July 2025, officials announced that elections for local and municipal offices, which were due to be held in August 2025 after a nearly 40-year hiatus, were to instead be held concurrently with the presidential election.[4] On 7 August, the CAR's electoral commission announced that the election would be held on 28 December 2025.[5]

Background

President Faustin-Archange Touadéra was initially limited to two terms before being constitutionally inelligble to run again. However, he put forward revisions to the constitution and a referendum in 2023 to remove term limits and extend presidential terms from 5 to 7 years. Danièle Darlan, head of the Constitutional Court, ruled that the proposed referendum was illegal, but she was replaced by Touadéra.[3] Opposition parties boycotted the referendum and it was approved with 95% of the vote. The Wagner Group provided security and logistical support for the conduct of referendum.[6]

Opposition leaders, such as Dominique Yandocka, were imprisoned despite their immunity as members of parliament and opposition parties have been banned from holding rallies.[3]

570,000 voters were registered by MINUSCA.[7] By February 2025, 98% of the voter registration centres in CAR were open, although 58 were still closed due to violence, and voter list revisions were done in 11 of 20 prefectures.[8]

Candidates

References

  1. ^ SCDGSL (March 2015). "PROPOSITON DE CONSTITUTION DE LA REPUBLIQUE CENTRAFRICAINE" (PDF). sangonet.com. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Code électoral de 2019" (PDF). Droit-afrique. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Siegle & Wahila 2025.
  4. ^ "Forty years and counting: CAR once again postpones local elections". Africanews. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
  5. ^ "Central African Republic sets 28 December 2025 for pivotal general elections". Africanews. 2025-08-08. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  6. ^ Valade 2023.
  7. ^ Signs of ‘Historic Progress’ towards Peace Emerge, Central African Republic’s Delegate Tells Security Council, Requesting Donor Support for 2025 Elections 2025.
  8. ^ Central African Republic faces ongoing challenges ahead of elections 2025.
  9. ^ "Central African Republic's President Touadera confirms third-term bid". Africanews. 27 July 2025. Retrieved 27 July 2025.

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