Alassane Ouattara Is Re-elected President of Ivory Coast

AP/Sevi Herve Gbekide

Alassane Ouattara Is Re-elected President of Ivory Coast - Alassane Ouattara  may be  re-elected  to   a  second term  In the same way   the  president  regarding  Ivory Coast  for the   1st  peaceful presidential election  near you   in   over   3  decades.  your current  provisional results  of the  Sunday election, announced  by the  Independent Electoral Commission  on  Wednesday morning, declared Mr. Ouattara  your own  winner  throughout  83.7 percent  of any  3.1  trillion  votes counted.

The Constitutional Court must certify  the  electoral results  intended for  them  to help   end up being  official.

Mr. Ouattara, 73,  a good  American-trained economist  IN ADDITION TO   a good  former top  recognized   in the  International Monetary Fund,  offers  guided  a  economic recovery  inside  growth rates surpassing  seven  percent. His challenge  is   to  sustain  most of these  growth  AND ALSO  spread  The item  evenly across  just about all  regions  In the same way  he tries  to help  reconcile  the actual  still-divided nation.

Starting  inside  2000, civil war  IN ADDITION TO  violence tore Ivory Coast,  your  world’s  greatest  cocoa producer,  in to   3  factions, culminating  with  bloody clashes  The item  left 3,000  you  dead  in  2011,  following  President Laurent Gbagbo refused  to help  step  along   to  let Mr. Ouattara succeed him.  The item  took  the  international military intervention  to help  remove Mr. Gbagbo,  which  faces trial  sooner   your  International Criminal Court  on the  Hague  with   charges   with regards to   your  2011 violence.

Turnout  am   of approximately  54 percent,  the  electoral commission said.  The idea  had  become   a   crucial  question,  soon after  opposition leaders called  for   a great  boycott  for you to  protest what they termed  a great  “electoral masquerade.”

Pascal Affi N’Guessan,  your  candidate  for its  former governing party,  ones  Ivorian Popular Front,  that will  Mr. Gbagbo founded, came  within  second,  with  9.3 percent. Mr. N’Guessan had criticized  ones  handling  of any  election, saying  The item  up  for you to  three  trillion  new voters had been excluded  coming from  participating  because the  voter lists were frozen  throughout   your own  2011 violence.

Many observers have begun  to be able to   store  anxiously  towards   subsequently  elections, scheduled  for  2020,  In the same way   there is certainly   no  clear successor  to help  Mr. Ouattara.  your current  Ivorian Constitution  offers   with regard to   a great  two-term limit,  AS WELL AS   a  age limit  associated with  75,  with regard to  presidential candidates.