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Mahamadou Issoufou won Niger’s 2011 presidential election.12
Following a military coup in 2010, the country held presidential elections in early 2011 to return to civilian rule. In the runoff election held on March 12, 2011, Issoufou, the leader of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism–Tarayya (PNDS), defeated Seyni Oumarou by capturing approximately 58 percent of the vote. He was subsequently inaugurated on April 7, 2011.12