Some 2 million individuals are registered to vote. Key points for them embrace preventing corruption and job creation for younger folks.
If re-elected, Ghazouani has promised a gas-fired energy plant from the Larger Tortue Ahmeyin (GTA) offshore fuel mission, which is on monitor to start out manufacturing by the top of the yr. He additionally pledged to put money into renewable vitality and increase gold, uranium, and iron ore mining.
Ghazouani has presided over a interval of relative stability since 2019, as Mauritania’s Sahel neighbours, together with Mali, battle with Islamist insurgencies which have led to army coups.
Mauritania has not recorded a militant assault on its soil lately and Ghazouani, who at present chairs the African Union, has promised to handle Islamist threats.
Distinguished activist Abeid is difficult Ghazouani on his human rights document and the marginalisation of Mauritania’s Black African inhabitants, whereas El Mokhtar has a following amongst conservative and non secular voters.
Even so, Ghazouani “is more likely to win a second time period, most likely within the first spherical,” mentioned Carine Gazier, sub-Saharan Africa specialist on the Concerto consultancy.