Benin waiting for the day after the 2023 legislative elections
Outside a polling station on January 8, 2023 in Cotonou, during the legislative elections.
AFP - YANICK FOLLY
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Beninese voters were called yesterday to choose the 109 new deputies of the National Assembly among the candidates of seven political parties, including three claiming to be from the opposition.
Since its creation, the Democrats, the party of former President Thomas Boni Yayi, took part in a ballot for the first time.
No results yet or turnout for this vote, which nevertheless took place peacefully.
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With our special correspondent in Cotonou,
Magali Lagrange,
No major incident was reported on Beninese territory.
The legislative elections of January 8, 2023 took place calmly, as many voters had hoped, in the polling stations or during the electoral campaign.
Voters still remembering the violent clashes that accompanied the last elections in several cities.
Elections which, unlike yesterday, were held without the opposition.
Expected turnout figures
No participation figure yet, at midday on Monday.
Civil society organizations that observed the voting process had announced a low turnout in the morning.
They had noted an improvement in the afternoon, without further details for the moment.
In Cotonou, there was no queue in front of the polling stations that RFI could see yesterday, but rather voters entering and leaving the centers, drop by drop.
A man who came to attend the count evokes the discouragement of some registered voters, the context of the last elections, while hoping that those to come will be calm and more inclusive again, “
to give them the taste
” to vote.
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