with the United States, due to his suspected marxist beliefs and close relationship with Muammar Gaddafi. 100% of the vote went towards the only candidate, Blaise Compaoré. The voter turnout was only about 25%, due to major political parties boycotting the election. 13% of the votes cast were declared invalid. 1998 General Elections Incumbent president Blaise Compaoré won the presidency in 1998, winning almost 90% of the popular vote. There was lots of boycotting from opposing parties, and only about 50% of the nation voted in the election. 2005 General Elections Incumbent president Blaise Compaoré won the presidency in 2005, getting about 80% of the vote. There was opposition to him running again, due to an amendment to the Constitution of Burkina Faso passed in 2000 making two terms the maximum limit. However, Compaoré was able to run anyway due to the fact that the amendment was passed during one of his terms, and thus could not apply until the next term. 2010 General Elections Incumbent president Blaise Compaoré won the presidency in 2010. However, citizens of Burkina Faso began to speak out about the fraudulent system, and how Compaoré and his party was going to fix the vote for another landslide victory. 2015 General Elections General elections were due to be held on 11 October 2015. However, on 16 September the now disbanded Regiment of Presidential Security (RSP) staged a coup d'état, and held the capital, Ouagadougou, for about a week. The protestors set the National Assembly building on fire and continued to riot in protest of election fraud. Following the Coup d'état, President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré won the election, in Burkina Faso's first peaceful and fair election with actual uncertainty of who was going to win the presidency in 50 years. 2020 General Elections The incumbent president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré won the presidency and was re-elected in 2020. Following a number of recurring terrorist attacks by Islamic jihadist groups, particularly Jihadist Group to Support Islam and Muslims and the Islamic State. Kaboré ran for re-election on the promise of bringing peace to Burkina Faso, and ending the terrorist attacks plaguing the nation. 2022 Coup d'état On January 24, 2022 Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba led a military insurgency to force out Kaboré. Damiba and fellow members of the coup were extremely dissatisfied with the way Kaboré had been handling the national bloody jihadist insurgency. He pledged to face