Tags: Election.
A presidential election was held in Mauritania on November 7 2003. As expected President Maaouya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya was easily re-elected against weak opposition. The opposition alleged election fraud and Taya’s main challenger former military ruler Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla (the man who Taya ousted when he seized power in December 1984) was arrested both immediately before and after the vote.
