Ex-premier supporters reject Mali's partial results.

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The supporters of erstwhile Prime Minister Ibrahima Boubacar Keita (IBK) have dissociated themselves from the first results of the poll published Tuesday night by the national vote centralisation commission which placed former military leader Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) at the top, followed by the ruling ADEMA party candidate Soumaila Cisse.

Keita's supporters issued a statement to denounce "irregularities" they said they had noted in the collection and treatment of the results of the poll staged last Sunday.

Keita, a candidate for the Rally for Mali (RPM), was joined by five other presidential hopefuls (Mountaga Tall, Chogel Maiga, Madiassa Maguiraga, Almamy Sylla and Modibo sangare) to raise concerns about the slow pace of the vote counting and the delayed announcement of the final results.

"We dissociate ourselves from the commission's procedure. There is a problem because certain contradictory results have been issued in the same locality," Keita's representative, Seydou Nourou Keita, told reporters as he vehemently denounced "the modification of the commission's rules of procedure".

Decrying the "publishing of results before the treatment of all the data in the presence of the representatives of all the ...