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Burkina Faso: Six candidates against Compaoré
Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré will run against six candidates in November’s poll. He is running for the fourth time after his victories in 1991, 1998 and 2005. Facing Mr. Compaoré, there are two opponents who will try for the second time to be lucky: Mr. Stanislas Sankara Bénéwendé (4.88% of the vote in 2005) and Pargui Emile Paré (less than 1%).
Supported by small parties, there are the former commander Boukary Kaboré, a former comrade of President Thomas Sankara, the diplomat Hama Arba Diallo, and the hydro-geologist Francis Kaboré Ouampoussoga, as the independent Maxime Kaboré, both of them will run for the first time. Of the eight candidatures submitted, the Council has rejected that of Harouna Dicko, a little-known opponent, because he had “not paid the bail of 15 000 Euros, and did not file the sponsorship certificates required by the election Code. Theoretically, the head of state will be running for his last five years term, but his party, the Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP), has announced its intention to revise the Constitution passed in 1991, to remove the limitation on the number of the presidential candidature.