The fighting took place nearly a day before the Supreme Court was to rule on the outcome of the highly contested 2006 presidential run-off.

January 17, 2010: Date of presidential run-off.

During late October 2006, as the date for the presidential run-off approached, security concerns were increasingly expressed.

The results of the presidential run-off were to be released on November 19, 2006.

An indirect presidential election was held in Nepal on 19 July 2008 with a presidential run-off on 21 July.

This resulted in the first presidential run-off since 1969 without a leftist candidate, and the first ever with a candidate of the far-right.

In the 2001 presidential run-off, Pires defeated Veiga by a margin of only 12 votes.

Therefore no candidate secured the final win in the first round, and a presidential run-off will be needed.

Tsvangirai initially agreed to a presidential run-off with Robert Mugabe, but later withdrew (on 22 June 2008), citing violence targeted at his campaign.

Toybou won 52.42 percent of the vote in the 29 June presidential run-off, defeating Mohamed Djaanfari.