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Who won Niger’s 2021 presidential election?
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Mohamed Bazoum won Niger’s 2021 presidential election. After no candidate secured an outright majority in the initial round of voting held on December 27, 2020, a runoff election took place on February 21, 2021. Bazoum, representing the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism–Tarayya (PNDS), emerged as the winner with more than 55 percent of the vote. His victory was subsequently confirmed by the Constitutional Court in March 2021, and he was sworn in as president on April 2, 2021.12