The second round of the presidential election in Niger was held on 12 March. Here is the result.

Mahamadou Issoufou (Parti nigérien pour la démocratie et le socialisme – PNDS-Tarayya) 57.95%
Seïni Oumarou (Mouvement national pour la société de développement – MNSD-Nassara) 42.05%

This is a good result for Niger in the sense that the election seems to have been fair, that Issofou won a decisive victory, and that the candidate of the ousted autocrat, Tandja Mamadou, was defeated. Had he won, then there would probably have been a regime crisis.

The construction of the new government is the next task and this will not be easy, given the strength of the different parties in the legislature.