Incumbent President Paul Kagame is about to win a fourth term in the presidential elections in Rwanda, DPA reported, quoted by BTA.
With nearly 79% of all votes cast counted, Kagame has gathered the support of more than 99% of the votes, data from the electoral commission show.
His two opponents - Green Party chairman Frank Habineza and independent candidate Philip Mpaimana - received significantly less than 1%, the electoral commission said.
More than nine million people were eligible to vote on Monday, two million of whom voted for the first time.
Kagame has been the country's president since 2000, but has effectively ruled Rwanda since 1994. Then, as the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), he returned to Rwanda from exile in Uganda and ended the genocide of the Hutu militias against the Tutsi community. After that, he was the Minister of Defense and Vice President.
Kagame's party, the RPF, is also likely to be the strongest party in the parliamentary elections. 670 candidates are fighting for the 80 seats in the parliament. A peculiarity is that women MPs make up the majority in the parliament.
Human rights organizations criticize the persecution of oppositionists in the East African country with a population of over 14 million people.
Official election results must be announced by July 27.