BRAZZAVILLE, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The Constitutional Court on Saturday validated the results of the March 12 and 15 presidential election that declared incumbent President Denis Sassou Nguesso the winner with over 94 percent of the vote, according to a statement issued the same day by Auguste Iloki, president of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of the Congo.

As a result, the provisional results announced on Tuesday, March 17, by the Minister of Interior, Raymond Zephirin Mboulou, on behalf of the National Independent Electoral Commission remain unchanged, officially declaring Denis Sassou Nguesso re-elected as president of the republic for a new five-year term.

Denis Sassou Nguesso, who ran under the banner of the Presidential Majority composed of nearly 20 political parties, competed against six other candidates. He had secured over 94 percent of the vote in the provisional results released on March 17 by the minister of interior, Raymond Zephirin Mboulou.

Out of an expected electorate of 3,167,909 voters, 2,681,571 cast their ballots, representing a voter turnout of 84.65 percent. ■