BAMAKO, Mali, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Turnout in weekend parliamentary elections in Mali was low, partly because of lingering violence, French 24 reported.
Elections officials said they were waiting up to 15 minutes between each voter Sunday, the report said.
More than 6 million Malians were eligible to vote in an election where 147 seats in the Parliament were contested by at least 1,000 candidates.
The election was the second since a coup in 2012. A presidential election was conducted in August.
The U.N. mission in Mali estimates about 500,000 Malians were displaced by conflict and 1.3 million people depend on food assistance.
France 24 said there a general lack of security in northern Mali.
Mali called for military support from former colonial power France to help fight al-Qaida and nomadic fighters that took control of the north of the country following the 2012 coup.
Radio France Internationale journalists Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon were found dead in Kidal, a city near the Algerian border, by French troops earlier this month. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb took responsibility for the slayings.
