2026 Djiboutian presidential election

2026 Djiboutian presidential election

10 April 2026
 
Candidate Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
Party RPP
Alliance UMP

Incumbent President

Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
RPP



Presidential elections will be held in Djibouti on 10 April 2026. While term limits have been scrapped in 2010 following a constitutional reform, incumbent president Ismaïl Omar Guelleh who won a fifth term in 2021, has been president since 1999. Originally ineligible for a sixth term due to the age limit of 75 that Guelleh imposed as part of the reforms, Djibouti passed a constitutional amendment in 2025 that lifted age limits, allowing him to run again.