Pesaingnya, politisi oposisi kawakan Ahmed Ould Daddah, memenangkan 60 persen dalam penghitungan suara Ahad di ibukota Nouakchott dan di daerah asalnya di Trarza di bagian tenggara, kata  sumber itu.
His opponent, longtime opposition politician Ahmed Ould Daddah, had won more than 60 percent of Sunday's vote in the capital Nouakchott and his native Trarza region in the southeast, the source said.