Kigali - The victory of President Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in Rwanda's legislative elections, which were in their final day Thursday, came as no surprise, given that no real opposition forces were allowed to take part in the contest.
The RPF, the former Tutsi rebel movement that Kagame used to lead, won 73.78 percent of votes in the historic legislative election, the first since the 1994 genocide that claimed the lives of up to one million Tutsis and their Hutu sympathizers.
That percentage gave it a considerable lead over its two closest rivals, the Social Democratic Party (PSD), lead by the former National Assembly speaker Vincent Biruta, with 12.31 percent of the vote, and the Liberal Party (PL, traditionally a Tutsi party before the genocide) with 10.56 percent.
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