Guyana president Irfaan Ali won the second term in the general elections

Guyanese President Irfaan Ali claimed a second five -year term, even if the official final results for Monday’s general elections have not yet been published.

The Progressive Party of the People of Ali (PPP) obtained at least 242,000 votes in the survey, saying that the majority in eight of the 10 districts in the South American country, according to the Reuters news agency.

We invest in NATIONAL (Win), a new political party founded only three months ago, arrived second with around 109,000 votes.

Ali, 45, campaigned on a commitment to use the country’s vast oil reserves, discovered in 2019 to improve infrastructure and reduce poverty, while sailing on territorial tensions with the neighbor of Venezuela.

It is not yet known how many seats each party will have in the Parliament of 65 members, but the current vice-president, Bharrat Jagdeo, told local media that the PPP would have a “larger majority” than in the last election in 2020.

Despite a lower participation rate than in the last elections, the PPP seems to have increased its share of votes – while the long -term opposition that a partnership for national unit followed the third.

A large part of this election was focused on how the parties would manage revenues from massive oil reserves discovered by the oil giant Exxonmobil in 2019.

Since 2019, the company claims to have found billions of oil barrels in Guyanese waters and territory – causing a quadruplage of the state budget.

With a population of around 800,000 inhabitants, Guyana now has one of the highest levels of crude oil reserved per capita in the world – and is one of the fastest economies in the region.

But the opposition parties say that there is an unfair distribution of oil gains in groups linked to the PPP, accusations that the ruling party denies.

The Azruddin businessman Mohamed, leader of the Win party, allegedly allegedly voting in the elections on Monday, even though he celebrated the party after “shaking the pillars of the Guyana political establishment”.

Observers of the organization of American states have been deployed in Guyana for the elections and have not yet reported cases of electoral fraud.

The elections came the day after the Guyanese police said that a boat carrying electoral officials and ballot boxes had been “shot dead from the Venezuelan shore” – in the disputed region of Essequibo.

Venezuela denied being behind the incident – which came while the two countries are locked in a dispute concerning competing complaints in the region rich in oil.