Ivory Coast: Alassane Ouattara's RHDP retains its majority in the National Assembly
Alassane Ouattara's RHDP retains the majority in the National Assembly after the legislative elections on Saturday.
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Ivorians now know the face of their new National Assembly, resulting from the legislative elections on Saturday in which almost all the political forces had participated in peace.
After two days of churning out the results, this time the country is set.
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With our special correspondent in Abidjan,
François Mazet
It is therefore the RHDP, the party in power, which wins, with its strongholds in the north and resisting its opponents in the rest of the country.
The supporters of Alassane Ouattara retain the absolute majority.
But the party is not doing as well as its leaders hoped.
It still remains for the president of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) to give the precise quantified distribution of seats, but it is certain that the mark of 60% of the deputies out of 255 will not be reached.
The last constituencies won by the opposition
Blame it on the last three results given and favorable to the opposition which pocketed the 10 deputies still in the running in the three
most disputed communes
of Abidjan: Yopougon, Port-Bouët and Marcory for which the negotiations lasted all night.
The first is the most emblematic.
It is played by around 450 votes, but with a very low turnout: only 18% of voters decided between the two lists.
This close battle is not necessarily over.
It is now the appeals phase that begins: disappointed candidates normally have five days to file.
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