Some 2 million individuals are registered to vote. Key points for them embrace combating 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 gasoline undertaking, which is on monitor to start out manufacturing by the tip of the 12 months. 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, wrestle with Islamist insurgencies which have led to navy 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 file and the marginalisation of Mauritania’s Black African inhabitants, whereas El Mokhtar has a following amongst conservative and spiritual voters.
Even so, Ghazouani “is prone to win a second time period, most likely within the first spherical,” stated Carine Gazier, sub-Saharan Africa specialist on the Concerto consultancy.