Benin: decisive week before the legislative elections of January 8
The entrance to the port of Cotonou, the heart of Benin's economy.
April 2021 © RFI/Aurore Lartigue
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Next Sunday, January 8, the Beninese renew the National Assembly.
Unlike 2019, they will have a choice, since opposition parties are among the seven political parties authorized by the Autonomous Electoral Commission (Céna).
The campaign ends Friday, January 6, at midnight, and the week will thus be decisive for the presidential movement and the opposition.
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With our correspondent in Cotonou,
Jean-Luc Aplogan
Friday night it will be over.
Electoral silence will impose itself on all.
Also, the parties are working hard.
The programs are enriched.
Abdoulaye Bio Tchané of the Bloc Républicain, one of the parties supporting President Patrice Talon will travel around ten cities.
"
Our strategy is occupation
," he said.
Proximity also, side of the UP the Renewal, the other heavyweight of the Talon camp, but the party of Joseph Djogbenou organizes Thursday and Friday a caravan, a meeting and a giant concert.
The FCBE opposition party announces a meeting in the stronghold of its leader, Paul Hounkpe.
As for the Les Démocrates party, the management is organizing a giant meeting in Porto-Novo on Tuesday, January 3, with all the big names.
The campaign is not without attack.
When the Democrats accuse the Talon camp of "
concentrating all the excesses of good democratic governance
", a Talon pro treats Boni Yayi, honorary president of the Democrats "
of amnesiac on the balance of powers
".
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