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Ivory Coast: calls for calm and responsibility
The Archbishop of Abidjan, Bishop Kutwa, warned political actors who, at the approach of the election are radicalising their positions. In his message, the leader of the Catholic Church urged, “fraternally” each candidate to respect the verdict of the polls.
The call for calm was also launched by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Ivory Coast, Choi Young Jin, who called for “credible” elections so that peace will be preserved. While the distribution of the voter and identity cards continues, not without difficulties, the political debate has gone tense this week about the votes counting mode. Representatives of the opposition within the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) have denounced the choice of the computer company for processing the results. For them, the leader of that company would be close to Gbagbo. But after bitter negotiations, the Prime Minister has managed a “consensual solution” to the crisis mode of counting the votes. Guillaume Soro has obtained the agreement of all the actors to process the counting of votes by the company SILS Technology, but under the supervision of a committee of experts. The IEC had initially planned a manual counting of votes, and the exclusion of any other technology.