Ivorian presidential election: the Constitutional Council confirms Ouattara's victory

Alassane Ouattara was proclaimed winner in the first round of the presidential election with 94.27% of the vote REUTERS / Luc Gnago

Text by: RFI Follow

5 mins

Unsurprisingly, the Ivorian Constitutional Council confirmed this Monday, November 9, the results of the CEI proclaiming the victory of Alassane Ouattara in the presidential election of October 31 in the first round. 

Publicity

Read more

With our correspondent in Abidjan,

Pierre Pinto

The Constitutional Council confirmed all the figures of the Ivorian Electoral Commission:

Alassane Ouattara reelected for a third term

, in the first round with 94.27% of the votes, against 1.99% for his opponent KKB;

a participation rate of 53.9%.

The Constitutional Council did not receive any appeal during the period of litigation which ended on Sunday.

It also validated the CEI's choice to count only 17,000 of the 22,000 polling stations, that is to say those where the election could take place.

Due to calls for civil disobedience and an active boycott, the ballot could not be held in 5,000 offices.

The CEI had therefore calculated the participation on the basis of 6 million registrants and not 7.5 million.

The judges therefore validated this calculation, invoking the “ 

electoral practice confirmed by case law

 ” referring to the 1995 presidential election “ 

also impacted by an active boycott

 ”.

Ouattara calls for dialogue

This Monday evening, after the decision of the Constitutional Council, Alassane Ouattara addressed the nation in a televised address.

In a speech of a little over a quarter of an hour, Alassane Ouattara thanked his voters as he should and congratulated his opponent KKB for his " 

republican attitude

 ".

Then addressed the opposition who opted for active boycott and civil disobedience.

 We unfortunately deplore the incidents provoked by the political opposition with sometimes dramatic consequences.

 "

Promising justice to the victims and the rigor of the law to the perpetrators of violence, Alassane Ouattara invited the Ivorians to " 

mutual forgiveness

 ".

The Ivorian president also had a message to this opposition which refuses to recognize him and which has launched a "national transitional council".

Initiative that triggered a series of arrests in its ranks.

“ 

I ask the political platform which has chosen to act outside the constitutional order to put a definitive end to this initiative.

I would therefore like to invite my enemy, President Henri Konan Bédié, to a meeting in the coming days for a frank and sincere dialogue with a view to restoring confidence.

I ask all our fellow citizens, in a surge of peace of minds and hearts, to work to maintain and strengthen peace and live it together. 

"

Opponents wanted or arrested

A displayed desire for appeasement which marks an inflection in the firmness of these last days.

After the results were announced by the electoral commission, the opposition, which called for a boycott, announced on November 2

the creation of a “national transitional council”

.

The regime reacted by arresting and placing in preventive detention a dozen opponents, including the number 2 of the PDCI, Maurice Kakou Guikahue, and Pascal Affi N'Guessan the president of the legal FPI, who was presented to an examining magistrate. this Monday.  

Pascal Affi N'Guessan was heard for the first appearance by the judge of the 9th investigating cabinet, who presented him with the various charges, some thirty, including attack on state security, act of terrorism, rape, crime, murder, etc.

They placed him under a warrant of committal and the judge informed us that for security reasons, he could not tell us where he was being taken.

Pierre Dagbo Godé

Sidy Yansane

To read also: Ivory Coast: the opposition is worried about its arrested officials

Newsletter

Receive all the international news directly in your mailbox

I subscribe

Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application

google-play-badge_FR

  • Ivory Coast

  • Alassane Ouattara