Burkina Faso: 13 candidates running for the presidential election in November

In Burkina Faso, the list of presidential candidates has been finalized (illustration: polling station, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, municipal elections in May 2015).

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In Burkina Faso, the Constitutional Council published this Thursday evening, October 22, the final list of candidates for the presidential election on November 22.

Thirteen suitors are in the running, including a woman.

Among them, the current president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, but also Zéphirin Diabré, the leader of the opposition or Yacouba Isaac Zida, ex-Prime Minister of the transition, in exile in Canada.

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With our correspondent in Ouagadougou

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Yaya Boudani

Among the presidential candidates, there are the heavyweights of the Burkinabè political scene.

Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

, the current president, is a candidate for his own succession.

Zéphirin Diabré

came in second in 2015. Tahirou Barry and Ablassé Ouedraogo were also present in 2015. Eddie Komboïgo, President of the Congress for Democracy and Progress, the former ruling party and Gilbert Noel Ouédraogo of the ADF / RDA are also in contention.

They had been excluded in 2015 for having supported the project to modify the constitution wanted by Blaise Compaoré.

One female candidate

Kadré Desiré Ouedraogo, former president of the ECOWAS commission and

Yacouba Isaac Zida

, ex-Prime Minister under the transition, in exile in Canada since 2016, will also be on the starting line.

Among the new ones: Master Farama Ambroise, Professor Abdoulaye Soma, Do Pascal Sessouma, journalist by training, and independent candidate Aimé Tassembedo.

The only woman among the 13 candidates is called Yeli Kam Monique.

Harouna Kindo, of the Movement of Intellectuals for Development, which appeared on the provisional list, was rejected for non-payment of the deposit of 25 million francs.

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