President Alassane Ouattara\u2019s Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace won 197 of the 255 National Assembly seats, official results show<\/p>\n
The ruling party in Ivory Coast (Cote d\u2019Ivoire) has secured an outright majority in legislative elections held on December 27, just weeks after its leader, Alassane Ouattara, was sworn into office for a fourth term following a disputed presidential vote.
\nThe Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) won 197 of the 255 National Assembly seats, according to results released by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) on Monday.
\nThe RHDP\u2019s main rival, the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast-African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA), led by former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam, claimed 32 seats. Independent candidates won 23 seats, with three other smaller parties winning one each. CEI reported a 35.04% voter turnout.
\nFormer President Laurent Gbagbo\u2019s African People\u2019s Party-Ivory Coast (PPA-CI), which previously held 18 parliamentary seats, boycotted the vote, citing concerns about the alleged lack of conditions for free, fair, and credible elections.<\/p>\n
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Incumbent President Ouattara won a landslide victory with 89.77% in an October 25 election that the West African country\u2019s opposition coalition, the Common Front, described as \u201ca civilian coup d\u2019\u00e9tat.\u201d The presidential election was clouded by violent protests against the disqualification of prominent opposition figures, including former President Gbagbo and Thiam. Gbagbo was barred from running for president due to prior convictions, while Thiam was removed from the electoral roll for holding French citizenship.<\/p>\n
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Ouattara, 83, has been in power since 2011, when he assumed the presidency after Gbagbo was arrested for refusing to accept defeat in the 2010 election. He was originally limited to two terms, but constitutional changes in 2016 reset the presidential term count, allowing him to run again.
\nIn a statement following his inauguration for a fourth term on December 8, Ouattara said Ivory Coast nationals made a \u201csovereign choice\u201d by voting for him again and that it showed their commitment to \u201cdemocracy, to stability, to peace, for which so many efforts have been made since 2011.\u201d
\nOn Saturday, Ouattara urged his supporters to \u201cmassively\u201d vote for the \u201cestablishment of the new National Assembly and the consolidation of democracy\u201d in the world\u2019s leading cocoa-producing country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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