The announcement of provisional results from the second round of legislative elections held on 26 April in the Central African Republic (CAR) has been indefinitely delayed after IT staff at the national electoral authority went on strike. Workers at the data processing centre of the Autorité nationale des élections (ANE) say they are withholding the results until they receive two months of outstanding salary payments, a demand they had already raised before the second round was held. The standoff matters because it leaves roughly a third of parliamentary seats unconfirmed, even as newly elected first-round deputies officially took up their posts on 3 May and an extraordinary parliamentary session — scheduled to run until 18 May — got under way to constitute the National Assembly's governing bureau and permanent committees.