His announcement was highly applauded. Alassane Ouattara said this Thursday in Yamoussoukro that he would not stand in the presidential election in October 2020. The Ivorian president has been maintaining the mystery for months about his possible candidacy for a third mandate.
"I solemnly announce that I decided not to be a presidential candidate for October 31, 2020 and to transfer power to a young generation," he launched before the parliamentarians of the Senate and the National Assembly. gathered in extraordinary Congress. This announcement, made after a 30-minute speech, was greeted with thunderous applause from elected officials but also from hundreds of pupils and students invited to the Congress. "Presi! Presi! Thank you ! Thank you ! "Chanted young people.
A tense political climate
“We are glad that it leaves room for the younger generation. He is a man of his word. I am proud of my president even if I am not one of his supporters. I am proud that we trust young people, ”said Daouda Bakayoko, student teacher at Cafop (equivalent to the Normal School) in Yamoussoukro.
Aged 78, Alassane Ouattara was elected in 2010 and reelected in 2015. The political climate is tense in Côte d'Ivoire before the presidential election in October, which will take place ten years after the post-electoral crisis of 2010-2011 which had made 3,000 dead. The 2018 municipal and regional elections were marked by a lot of violence and fraud.
For the moment, the former rebel leader Guillaume Soro, currently in France and under an arrest warrant in Côte d'Ivoire, is the only one to have declared himself a candidate. Former President Henri Konan Bédié, who will be 86 years old at the poll and who has not ruled out the idea of running.
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