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Ivory Coast: The second round issue remains uncertain

By on November 26, 2010
After a decade of confrontation and coup, the prelude to the final second round of presidential elections will be perilous, Sunday, between the incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, and his challenger, Alassane Ouattara.

Tensions are becoming increasingly important. The campaign in between the two rounds is turning for noxious. Affray, fighting with knives, threats, rhetorical excesses, identity blunders, have become very tense. But the worse might happen on Monday 29, the day after election, when rumours of triumphs and suspected frauds and accusations will rain down, then the country will enter in heavy storms and the risk of an “uncontrollable situation” which might outbreak with the proclamation of the election results. Among the disturbing indices to be considered, is the “radicalisation” of the youth movements and the respective “conditioning of the extremists” on both sides. The Convention also deplores the increasing grip of “irrational considerations, tribal, regional, religious and financial and urged the two actors to measure their historical responsibility. Another sign comes from the Security Council, which unanimously approved on Wednesday, the transfer to the Ivory Coast of three battalions and two helicopters, usually stationed in neighbouring Liberia. The explanation given was that election tensions continue to jeopardize peace and security in the region.” Two days before the elections, two questions haunt the former powerhouse of the West Africa countries, but today the sick and agonising infant: Would he who wins overcome his victory? And would the loser and his base digest their spite?

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