{"iso":"DJ","name":"Djibouti","flag":"\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddef","vote":"Presidential vote \u00b7 official result, not competitive","model":"noncomp","updated":"2026-04-10","source":"2026 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the presidential vote of 10 April 2026, official results as published by the electoral authorities. Most opposition parties boycott national votes, and a 2025 constitutional change removed the age cap that would have barred Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh, in power since 1999, from a sixth term.","shares":{"RPP":97.0,"UDC":3.0},"polls":[],"parties":{"RPP":{"name":"Rassemblement Populaire pour le Progr\u00e8s","color":"#1B7A3D","name_en":"People's Rally for Progress"},"UDC":{"name":"Centre D\u00e9mocratique Unifi\u00e9","color":"#2E86C1","name_en":"Unified Democratic Centre"}},"primer":{"system":"Presidential republic under dominant-party rule","head_of_state":"President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh, in power since 1999","head_of_government":"Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed","legislature":"National Assembly, unicameral, 65 members.","electoral_system":"The president is directly elected in up to two rounds. Assembly members are elected on party lists with a majority bonus.","government_now":"Guelleh took a sixth term in April 2026 with an official 97 percent against a single lightly known challenger, with the main opposition boycotting.","context":"The small state's location on the Bab-el-Mandeb strait makes it host to military bases of the United States, China, France, Japan and others. A legislative election is due in February 2028.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"RPP":["Rassemblement Populaire pour le Progr\u00e8s","People's Rally for Progress","Long-ruling party of President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh; the dominant force in the governing UMP coalition and effectively the party of the state since independence."],"UDC":["Centre D\u00e9mocratique Unifi\u00e9","Unified Democratic Centre","Small opposition party of Mohamed Farah Samatar, the lone challenger in the 2026 presidential vote; holds no parliamentary seats."]},"has_geo":true,"geo_meta":{"kind":"admin1","source":"Natural Earth 10m admin-1 states/provinces (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector), retrieved 2026-07-02","note":"Region set and any internationally-disputed territories follow the Natural Earth source dataset. Far overseas/outlying territories may fall outside the primary map frame."},"next_election":{"date":"2031-04","title":"Djiboutian presidential election","chamber":"President","type":"expected"}}