Many hope that the 2020 elections will see Côte d’Ivoire’s first democratic handover of power. The historic elections upcoming are opportunities for Côte d’Ivoire to continue on its peaceful path towards prosperity. Since Ouattara entered office in 2011 following a post-electoral crisis that claimed at least 3,000 lives, the country’s GDP has grown by an average of 8 percent annually (although the poverty rate remains high, at 46.3 percent). It will be the biggest challenge to the political stability of the country since the 2010-11 post-electoral crisis. After being ousted in a coup in 1999 – the first in the country’s history – he went into exile in France before returning to Ivory Coast in 2002 during the outbreak of the civil war. Because they face criminal sentences, ex-President Laurent Gbagbo and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro, both giants of Ivorian politics, were among those barred from running. Current president Faure Gnassingbé, who has been in power since 2005 when his father died, is expected to extend his rule as he’s now expected to be the sole candidate on the ballot. He was ultimately spurned by the party. Liste Électorale 2020. Wake up to the essential with the Editor's picks. The country’s lawmakers last year oka… Konan Bertin tried to win the nomination to stand for the PDCI going into this election. But after falling out with Bédié in 2015, he decided to run as an independent, coming third in the election. 2020-10-21T09:19:03.749Z. Several people were also killed in clashes in Toumodi,[14] as well as Tiébissou. 16 September 2020. Despite having come second in the last presidential election, Pascal Affi N’Guessan faces a difficult campaign. In 2010, he was not even able to take part in a TV debate to defend his programme in front of the Ivorian people.”. Cote d'Ivoire: Presidential Election - Four Candidates On the Starting Block . S'INFORMER SUR PROCESSUS ELECTORAL. Elections in Côte d’Ivoire: President Ouattara’s Dilemma . He was met with rapturous applause. Ce soir, la Côte d’Ivoire donne l’exemple. Affectionally known as KKB, Kouadio Konan Bertin once had grand ambitions of standing as a candidate for the PDCI. Election monitors from ECOWAS had to travel by helicopter to reach Abidjan due to difficulties entering the city. Je salue la décision historique du Président @AOuattara_PRCI, homme de parole et homme d’État, de ne pas se présenter à la prochaine élection présidentielle. This time around it will be harder. On Sunday he held a meeting attended by parties whose candidates have been barred from competing by the constitutional court. Incumbents in Burkina Faso, Togo and Guinea exploited rule changes to subvert a two-term limit. Cote d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara is 79 while one of his opponents, former president Henri Konan Bedie, was 86 when he contested in 2020. He returned to Ivory Coast on 2 July, but died six days later after falling ill during a meeting of the Council of Ministers. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. [7], Ouattara argued that because a new constitution was promulgated after a constitutional referendum in 2016, term limits (normally 2 for a President) were effectively reset, which would allow him to run for a controversial third term. One week later, Gon Coulibaly was, to no surprise, designated the presidential candidate for RHDP. The President of Ivory Coast will be elected for a five-year term using the two-round system. [2] Ouattara imposed Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly as the RHDP candidate of the ruling party over other potential candidates, including Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan, who later resigned. Togo will hold the first African presidential election of the year on Feb. 22. France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines. The 67-year-old ex-Prime Minister is the ‘official’ leader of the FPI – the left-wing party set up by Laurent Gbagbo. The event left the RHDP without a candidate, and Ouattara considered putting forward Defense Minister Hamed Bakayoko, before renouncing due to alleged links to drug trafficking. In the US, Trump and Biden are outliers because the Mesdames et Messieurs, Cher(e)s Internautes, Nous vous savons légitimement très nomb “We are the only political group able to guarantee development and the continued improvement of living standards for our citizens, in peace and security,” he told a cheering crowd as he was sworn in as his party’s candidate. Forty percent of the Ivorian population is under the age of 15. Africa Insight. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. He took aim at Bédié in an interview with Jeune Afrique: “He said himself in 2010 that he had led his last fight. After Gbagbo was sent to face charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in 2011, the party split in two. Cote d’Ivoire holds legislative elections on March 6, 2021, following the October 2020 presidential election. After the sudden death of Côte d’Ivoire’s Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, President Ouattara is now deciding whether to stand for a third term. He has also promised, paradoxically, to lower tax rates and boost public spending. https://t.co/oDcmBl1sNW. However, several members of the opposition have had disagreements, with the PDCI, Guillaume Soro, Simone Gbagbo, and Pascal Affi N'Guessan saying that a transitional government should immediately be named, while the FPI party argued that it was too early to form one in the current environment, saying a civil disobedience movement needed to force Ouattara to negotiate in a legal manner. Côte d’Ivoire’s prime minister Hamed Bakayoko, whose death was announced on 10 March, appeared to be one of the most likely candidates to succeed President Alassane Ouattara. A number of PDCI members gained ministerial positions in government and continue to hold them, even after the alliance fell apart in 2018. The 78-year-old had made repeated promises to hand power over to “a young generation”. [15] Indigo, an Ivorian NGO backed by the National Democratic Institute, estimated that 23% of polling stations were shuttered, and 6% had to close early before the counting process and announcement of results were completed. [11] Soro's lawyers claimed this was an attempt to prevent him taking part in the election. But Coulibaly’s sudden death from a heart attack in July shattered his plans for his political succession, and so Ouattara was forced to rethink. Bédié has called for the return of all exiles and the release of all remaining political prisoners from the 2010-11 post-electoral crisis. Bédié served as President of Ivory Coast from 1993 to 1999. In the run up to the 2020 election, there are signs that Bédié has been successful in building new alliances. The Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire and the ruling party’s candidate for the October presidential polls, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, died on Wednesday following a Cabinet meeting. He has dismissed the ‘Gbagbo or Nothing’ wing as “remaining in the logic of dissidence”. As a result, I’ve decided not to be a candidate in the 2020 presidential election,” he said at the time, adding that he wanted “to hand over power to a new generation”. The 2020 election’s biggest controversy is Alassane Ouattara’s bid for a third term. President Alassane Ouattara’s bid for a third term in office has been rife with controversy. The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore. There have been significant protests in Togo of the Gnassingbé’s dynastic rule, given the president’s father seized control himself in 1967. He declared in March that Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, 61, would contest the election in his place. Presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire: Daloa, the starting point for many candidates for exile. He also recognised that he was not sure if he still had the strength to run a government. Those remaining will compete in the first round of the election on October 31. Ouattara’s third term bid is of grave concern to political stability in Côte d’Ivoire. KKB is pitching himself as a fresh-faced alternative to the other three candidates who have an average age of 77 and who have long-dominated Ivorian politics. Former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, who was living in France, announced that he would contest the elections. His presidency was marked by the embrace of Ivoirité – a xenophobic ideology used to discriminate against those of Burkinabe and Malian origins. These political and security risks around the presidential elections, are reflected in a downward notch that we apply to Cote D’Ivoire’s rating. However, on 29 April 2020 he was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison and given a $7.6 million (£6.1 million) fine. After coming third in the 2010 presidential election, Bédié urged PDCI supporters to back Ouattara in the second round in an ultimately successful bid to oust Laurent Gbagbo from power. The EU notes the Constitutional Council’s decision of 14 September concerning the candidates eligible to stand in the presidential election. Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power. Ivorian soldiers patrol the town of M’Batto after intercommunal clashes on November 9 and 10 following Côte d’Ivoire's October 31 presidential election, November 12, 2020. Former president Laurent Gbagbo and former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, both critics of incumbent Ouattara, were barred as they were facing criminal charges. On the campaign trail, he will be keen to boast of his presidential legacy of economic development. Incumbent president Alassane Ouattara was re-elected with 95% of the vote amidst an opposition boycott. Gbagbo loyalists created the so-called ‘Gbagbo or Nothing’ faction and boycotted previous elections, refusing to recognise Affi N’Guessan as a legitimate replacement for the party’s founder. When Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara announced on Mar. [1] On 5 March 2020, he publicly reiterated his intent not to be candidate during an address to Congress. N’Guessan has said he would welcome the return of Gbagbo from exile but argues that until that day comes, he should lead the FPI into elections. In all likelihood, N’Guessan’s impact will be limited to whether he too decides to back the PDCI or not – if he chooses not to, Ouattara’s chances of a third term victory could be higher. © 2021 Copyright France 24 - All rights reserved. In 2015 his party supported Ouattara again, this time from the outset, helping the RHDP win a landslide. Opponents and legal experts point out that the Ivorian constitution limits the presidency to two terms. Opposition parties argued that the move was unconstitutional, and some protests ensued, but Ouattara was allowed to run again regardless by the Independent Electoral Commission and the Constitutional Court. All of Cote d’Ivoire’s presidential elections since 1994, except the last election in 2015, have been marred by disruptive violence, which led the country to default on external market debt in two instances, in 1999 and 2011. [3][4] However, in May Coulibaly was hospitalised for heart complications and had a stent fitted. “This decision represents a real sacrifice for me,” he solemnly declared. The 31 October vote will be the fifth presidential election since the death of the ‘pere foundateur de la nation’ (father of the nation) Felix Houphouet Boigny in 1993. The United States remains committed to supporting free, transparent, and inclusive elections in Côte d’Ivoire. Following a peace deal between the government and former rebels in March 2007, the next elections were planned for early 2008. French President Emmanuel Macron had congratulated Ouattara on his initial decision not to stand for a third term. A challenge to uphold presidential term limits coupled with unresolved tensions surrounding Côte d’Ivoire’s civil war in 2010 make the 2020 elections a watershed for the country. The 2020 Ivorian election follows a recent pattern of democratic backsliding in West Africa. Winning more than 3.1 percent of the vote (his 2015 result) and putting those words into action will be difficult without the backing of the electoral machinery of the major parties. Consultez votre présence sur la Liste . 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Presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire: Kouadio Konan Bertin, self-proclaimed youth candidate 2020-10-26T08:41:58.578Z In a country where two-thirds of the population is under 25, Ivorian presidential candidate Kouadio Konan Bertin, 52, does not hesitate to use … Mr Coulibaly had just returned from France, where he spent two months receiving medical treatment for a heart condition. Découvrez, en 12 étapes, le déroulement du scrutin en Côte d’Ivoire. Candidates - parties Votes % Laurent Gbagbo - Front populaire ivoirien: 59.4 Robert Guéï - Indépendant: 32.7 Francis Wodié - Parti ivoirien des travailleurs: 5.7 Théodore Mel Eg - Union des Démocrates de Côte d'Ivoire: 1.5 Nicolas Dioulo 0.8 Total (Participation 37,4 %) 100.0 Source: Reuters. Former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, who was living in France, announced that he would contest the elections. The 51-year old former MP is now standing as the election’s only independent candidate. Ivoirians and observers alike are particularly desperate to avoid a repeat of 2010, when post-election violence between supporters of Ouattara and then-president Laurent Gbagbo left at least 3,000 people dead. However, such a move would face challenges internationally, and particularly in West Africa. The 86-year-old President of the PDCI party is Ouattara’s main challenger. Président. Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has won a controversial third term in office in an election boycotted by the opposition. The pact propelled Ouattara to presidential election victories in 2010 and 2015 but collapsed in September 2018 when the parties bickered over whose candidate should be in pole position in 2020. Audience ratings certified by ACPM/OJD. 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AFP Photos/Sia Kambou The announcement triggered protests across the country leading to at least 15 deaths in subsequent clashes between demonstrators and the police. The government maintains that because the constitution was reformed in 2016, the term count should be re-set to zero. as he was sworn in as his party’s candidate. [13], The opposition announced that it would not recognise the validity of the election, saying it was "marred by many irregularities and a low turnout," and called for "the start of a civilian transition in order to create the conditions for a fair, transparent and inclusive election". This page was last edited on 16 March 2021, at 17:14. Before entering politics, Ouattara worked as an IMF economist and served as the Governor of the Central Bank of West African States. It is up to the Ivoirian people to decide the future and leadership of their country. His chances of winning in the first round are small – particularly if the ‘Gbagbo or Nothing’ wing keeps its promise to not boycott this election and then throws its weight behind Bédié. 28 July 2020 3 minute READ. These elections are happening in the wake of the presidential election, in which President Alassane Ouattara sought controversial third term while using the state to bar his political opponents from running against him. He is also the figure around which other opposition parties are likely to unite should the election go to a second-round. Flanked by delegates from the pro-Gbagbo wing of the FPI party and Guillaume Soro’s GPS party, he called for civil disobedience in response to Ouattara’s “violation” of the constitution. The opposition claims that Ouattara’s third-term bid is unconstitutional, but the incumbent argues that constitutional amendments in 2016 reset the term count. [11][12], On 14 September, the Constitutional Council approved four candidates; Ouattara, former president Henri Konan Bédié from the PDCI, former prime minister Pascal Affi N'Guessan and Kouadio Konan Bertin, a dissident from the PDCI. Ivorian presidential candidate, Kouadio Konan Bertin, at an election rally in Cote d'Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan, 4 October 2020. Demonstrators opposed to President Alassane Ouattara running for a third term confront riot police in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, Aug. 13, 2020 (AP photo by Diomande Ble Blonde). In 2020, this cannot still be his last fight! In 2015, Ouattara won a landslide victory with 84 percent of the vote. The candidacy was made possible despite his previous terms as they did not count toward the two-term limit in the new constitution introduced in 2016, the elections having taken place under a different constitution. Côte d'Ivoire is a one party dominant state with the Ivorian People's Front in power. M. COULIBALY-KUIBIERT Ibrahime. Ouattara has signalled that he may stand for a third consecutive term.But Côte d’Ivoire’s new constitution promulgated in 2016, states that a candidate can only be reelected once.. After weeks of speculation, Ouattara made an address broadcast on state TV, telling the country that he would run again. [8] Despite seeing good economic growth, critics have argued that vast inequality remains, and that Ouattara is developing authoritarian tendencies. The ruling led to violent protests. Presidential elections were held in Ivory Coast on 31 October 2020. In the run up to the 2020 election, there are signs that Bédié has been successful in building new alliances. La Liste Electorale 2020 est consultable par tout citoyen ivoirien. It was a Friday afternoon, on the eve of the 31 October 2020 presidential election. Questions over the Independence of Electoral Institutions. For years, Ouattara had suggested that he would not run again. Soro's lawyers claimed this was an attempt to prevent him taking part in the election. The adoption of the 2016 Constitution led … As the presidential election on October 31 approaches, Thaïs Brouck, correspondent for France 24 in Côte d'Ivoire, crisscrossed the country to meet the people. From left to right: incumbent Alassane Ouattara, former president Henri Konan Bédié, Pascal Affi N'Guessan and Kouadio Konan Bertin. Le mot du Président. Côte d’Ivoire Presidential and Legislative Elections, October 31. Cote d’Ivoire is one of six ECOWAS member states scheduled to hold elections in 2020.
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