{"iso":"ML","name":"Mali","flag":"\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddf1","vote":"Presidential vote \u00b7 official result, not competitive","model":"noncomp","updated":"2018-08-12","source":"2018 runoff result, official count","credit":"No national party vote was published for the two-round parliamentary election of March and April 2020, Mali's last vote before its coups, so shares are the presidential runoff of 12 August 2018, official results as confirmed by the Constitutional Court. The junta dissolved all political parties in 2025 and General Assimi Go\u00efta took a renewable five-year mandate without an election.","shares":{"RPM":67.2,"URD":32.8},"polls":[],"parties":{"RPM":{"name":"Rassemblement pour le Mali","color":"#C8102E","name_en":"Rally for Mali"},"URD":{"name":"Union pour la R\u00e9publique et la D\u00e9mocratie","color":"#2E86C1","name_en":"Union for the Republic and Democracy"}},"primer":{"system":"Military junta","head_of_state":"General Assimi Go\u00efta, granted a renewable five-year presidential mandate in 2025 without an election","legislature":"Appointed 147-member National Transition Council. The elected National Assembly was dissolved after the 2020 coup.","electoral_system":"Under the suspended constitution the president was directly elected in two rounds and deputies in two-round majority races. Elections have not been held since 2020.","government_now":"Go\u00efta led coups in 2020 and 2021, expelled French and UN forces in favour of Russian fighters, and banned political party activity in 2025.","context":"Jihadist groups have tightened fuel blockades around Bamako and control swathes of the country. Mali anchors the Alliance of Sahel States with Burkina Faso and Niger after their joint exit from ECOWAS. Both parties shown were dissolved by the junta in 2025.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"RPM":["Rassemblement pour le Mali","Rally for Mali","Party of late president Ibrahim Boubacar Ke\u00efta; governed 2013-2020 until the coup, and was dissolved along with all parties by the junta in 2025."],"URD":["Union pour la R\u00e9publique et la D\u00e9mocratie","Union for the Republic and Democracy","Centrist/social-democratic party long led by Souma\u00efla Ciss\u00e9; the main opposition before the coups, dissolved by the junta in 2025."]},"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."}}