Incumbent President Ouattara declared winner of Ivory Coast election | Election news

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In power since 2011, 83-year-old Alasane Ouattara was voted out for a fourth term, beating out two main rivals.

President Alassane Ouattara has won re-election in Ivory Coast Presidential votingAccording to the provisional results.

The country’s Independent Election Commission announced on Monday that the 83-year-old incumbent had won a fourth term with 89.77 percent of the vote.

About nine million Ivorians were eligible to vote on Saturday in a race that excluded Ouattara’s top rivals. Former President Laurent Gbagbo was banned for criminal activity and the former CEO of Credit Suisse Tidjane thiam Disqualified from acquiring French citizenship.

The remaining four candidates were not seen as viable contenders, as they lacked major political parties and significant financial resources.

One of them, former commerce minister Jean-Louis Billon, on Sunday was congratulated After early partial results, Autara took a strong lead across the country with over 90 percent of the vote, including 100 percent in northern strongholds.

Political giants were ahead in traditionally pro-opposition areas in the south and even in parts of the financial center Abidjan where turnout was low. In the southern city of Gagnoa, he won 92 percent of the vote but only 20 percent of the vote.

Amid widespread anger at Ouattara’s decision to seek a fourth consecutive term, many defected. Under the Constitution, a president can serve a maximum of two terms, but the president argued that his limit was “reset” by a 2016 constitutional amendment.

In the weeks leading up to the election, sporadically Prohibition erupted in response to Prohibition of Major Contenders Since the election, it has prompted the government to ban demonstrations and arrest more than 200 people from the campaign group of the Common Front political movement.

Electoral Commission President Ibrahim Coulibaly-Cuibert previously polled around 50 percent – the same level as in 2020, when Ouattara won 94 percent of the vote in an election boycotted by the main opposition.

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