By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO, May 4 (Reuters) - Election officials in Mali on Friday revised upwards President Amadou Toumani Toure's margin of victory in presidential polls as opposition complaints against the result mounted in the poor West African country. Territorial Administration Minister Kafougouna Kone, whose ministry organised Sunday's election, said a recount of returns showed Toure had won 70.89 percent of valid votes, ahead of his nearest rival Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on 19.08 percent. "These results ... will be sent to the constitutional court, which is the sole body competent to announce the definitive, final outcome," Kone told reporters. Provisional results announced by the ministry on Thursday had put Toure on 68.3 percent and Keita, head of the national assembly and a former prime minister, on 18.6 percent. A coalition of opposition parties which backed Keita and three other of the eight presidential candidates has said it does not recognise the results and will challenge them in court. More than 1,000 opposition supporters turned out at a meeting held in a basketball stadium late on Thursday to hear their candidates explain their objections to the result. The opposition first cried foul before voting began, saying electoral lists were out of date, ballot papers were circulated before the polls and the military were told to back Toure. Foreign election observers and diplomats say there were a few technical glitches during the polls in the former French colony, one of the world's poorest countries, but that overall the vote was free, fair and credible.
