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Ivory Coast: Under fears of Violence and frauds

By on October 25, 2010
Guillaume Soro, the prime minister, in a government of national unity, is not running for the elections. But he was behind the process and recently welcomed the start of voter card distribution to an expanded list of 5.7 million eligible voters.

He announced on Sunday that the results of the presidential elections of October 31st would be proclaimed on the base of a computerised system counting, while the electoral commission had chosen a manual counting by fear of frauds. Other fears are about whether one part or the other will try to stir up problems, to delay the election once again, or send the cards to the wrong places, or whether elections will go smoothly in opposition strongholds in the south. Today, all the political protagonists in Ivory Coast are on board for a presidential election finally scheduled to take place October 31st. The country has been divided since rebels took up arms in 2002. Mr. Gbagbo recently campaigned in the cocoa-rich and still rebel-held northwester city of Man. He promised employment for the region’s many jobless youths, some of whom became rebel fighters after the insurgency began in 2002. While the former Prime Minister and  former  International Monetary Fund deputy director, Alassane Ouattara, recently campaigned in the southern commercial capital, Abidjan, calling for a better future for the country by giving the destiny of Ivory Coast to a man who knows what he is doing. The third major candidate is former President Henri Konan Bedié, who was deposed in a coup in 1999. He is the candidate of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – formerly the long-standing ruling party. Anyway, if no candidate wins more than 50% of the votes in the first round, a second-round runoff between the top two finishers is scheduled for the end of November

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