MORONI, July 2, 2008 (AFP) - Official election results released on Wednesday confirmed Moussa Toybou as the new president of the Comoros isle of Anjouan, three months after renegade leader Mohamed Bacar was ousted.

The constitutional court of the Union of the Comoros announced during a public session that Toybou, a relative political newcomer, had won 52.42 percent of the vote in the June 29 presidential run-off.

The court 'declares Mister Moussa Toybou the elected president of the autonomous isle of Anjouan,' constitutional court president Abdoulhamid Abdourazakou said.

Mohamed Djaanfari, who obtained 47.58 percent of the vote, was the pre-poll frontrunner but Toybou benefitted from the support of the president of the Union, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi.

Toybou was already ahead by a similar margin in provisional results announced on Monday when observer missions from the African Union, Indian Ocean states, Arab League, the United States and francophone nations said they were satisfied the two-round poll had been transparent.

The coup-prone Indian Ocean nation consists of the islands of Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli, each governed by a local president and parliament, with the federal presidency rotating between them.

Comoran and African Union-mandated forces invaded Anjouan in March to overthrow Bacar after he refused to step down following elections they declared illegal the previous year.

Bacar and his followers fled to the French island of Reunion where a court of appeal gave him a three-month suspended jail term after finding him guilty of importing weapons.

Toybou, a civil engineer trained in Algeria, campaigned on his first-hand experience of development work on the tiny impoverished island.

'I know the mechanisms that can lift Anjouan out of under-development,' he told AFP before the June 15 first round.

Toybou has also advocated reinstating some of the top officials in the secessionist Bacar's entourage for the sake of national reconciliation.

'Some of them are very experienced administrators who can still serve the island. If there are some among them who have committed abuses, then the judiciary will follow its course but you need evidence for this,' he said.