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Ivory coast: In politics, Nothing is granted

By on April 6, 2010
Ivorian Prime Minister Guillaume Soro said he “cannot imagine” that the presidential election be held after August 7, 2010, date of the fiftieth anniversary of the independence of Côte d’Ivoire.”Otherwise, the party might be very sad”, stated the prime minister and former chief of the rebel New Forces (FN), without advancing a specific date.

For several weeks, the presidential camp and the opposition fight on the modalities of dealing with disputes concerning the electoral list. The latest impasse began in January after the production of a second electoral list, with some 5.3 million confirmed people and around 1 million people still needing to be confirmed. While the pro-Gbagbo forces opposed to new forces on another sensitive issue, making the disarmament of former rebels a prerequisite for election.
Guillaume Soro, said that in all countries emerging from a conflict, “we do not expect the last soldier to return his weapon to go to vote”. “Game is over,” says the leader of the FN, warning that “those who are tempted to stop the march of history will learn at their expense”.
This new evolution happens just after the Prime Minister Guillaume Soro and President Laurent Gbagbio were in Burkina Faso, at the end of last week to meet, separately, with the Head of State of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaore, the facilitator of the Ivorian crisis, to remove the deadlocks on elections repeatedly postponed since 2005, and to end the crisis resulting from the failed 2002 coup, which divided the country into a rebel north and loyalist south.

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