Legislative in Côte d'Ivoire: overview of the forces involved
A view of the city of Abidjan.
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In Côte d'Ivoire, the legislative candidates of March 6 had until Friday January 22 to submit their file.
255 seats are at stake for a poll that marks the return to the electoral battle of the pro-Gbagbo FPI, after ten years of boycotting all elections.
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With our correspondent in Abidjan,
Pierre Pinto
This is the image of this Friday evening at the CEI: the executive director of the RHDP Adama Bictogo and the president of the pro-Gbagbo EDS platform Georges Armand Ouegnin nudging each other, ironically about their respective future victory.
The RHDP has lined up candidates everywhere, including several members of the government, led by the Prime Minister.
Hamed Bakayoko is a candidate for Séguéla in the north-west of the country.
On the opposition side, the last few weeks have been stormy.
EDS and the PDCI have agreed on a distribution of constituencies to put all the chances on their side.
EDS thus presents a hundred candidates while avoiding the regions where the PDCI is traditionally located, such as Bélier, the district of Yamoussoukro, or the region of Iffou, around Daoukro.
But this alliance has caused discontent.
On Friday, the URD, a small opposition party denounced this bilateral agreement, to the detriment of other formations.
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Forgotten the common lists ... Under the hegemonic impulse of the two major parties, [...] the allies are unceremoniously dismissed, with great contempt
", lamented its president Danièle Boni Claverie.
At the start of the week, Pascal Affi N'Guessan's FPI made the same criticisms.
The FPI has therefore decided to go it alone in these elections and to align some sixty candidates, including its president Pascal Affi N'guessan in Bongouanou, of which he is an outgoing deputy.
As for the Soroists, they are several to present themselves as independent while their movement, GPS, officially does not participate in this election.
The Electoral Commission has until January 31 to examine these candidatures, before submitting them to the Constitutional Council for validation.
► See also: Ivory Coast: end of applications for the legislative elections of March 6
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