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Opposition leader Patrick Herminie wins presidential runoff election
The Daily Guardian
|October 13, 2025
Opposition leader Patrick Herminie won the presidential election in Seychelles, defeating incumbent leader Wavel Ramkalawan in a runoff vote, according to official results released early Sunday.
Herminie garnered 52.7% of the vote, with Ramkalawan taking 47.3%, the results showed.
Herminie represents the United Seychelles party, which led the country for four decades before it lost power in 2020. It was the governing party from 1977 02020, Ramkalawan, of the governing Linyon Demokratik Seselwa party, sought a second term.
This story is from the October 13, 2025 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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