They say that a third of voters were unable to cast their ballot because of insecurity.

The electoral commission said on Tuesday that around 800 of a total of 5408 polling stations did not open because of insecurity.

That's around 14%.

But the group of opposition coalition, which includes five presidential candidates on former President Francois Bozize a say voting was halted in over 2000 stations, silencing a third of voters.

They did not provide details on which polling stations were closed or proof to back up the claims.

The nation has struggled with waves of militia violence since 2000 and 13 armed groups vowed to march on the capital on disrupt the vote after several candidates, including Bozize A were barred from running security forces managed to fend off attacks on vote counting is now underway with the help of U.

N peacekeepers, Matias Bartella MIM Aruba is president of the National Election Authority.

WAY have started to receive votes here in this data processing center, with results from Bungie in particular ah lot of results from Bungie have arrived.

About 64% of those results have already bean processed.

Full provisional results are expected this week on President Pfosten Afghans.

Touadera is considered the favorite in a field of 17 candidates.