Côte d’Ivoire: regional, municipal elections outcome & concerns for 2020
- October 17, 2018
- - 2:48 pm
Summary The outcome of Côte d’Ivoire’s regional and municipal council elections favoring the ruling RHDP was unsurprising. A deepening ethnopolitical divide in the country is worrisome, however, but foreign diplomatic and internal political postures can help to mitigate against rising electoral stress as the country next anticipates a presidential election in 2020. Analysis Côte d’Ivoire’s independent electoral commission released results for the country’s October 13 regional and municipal council elections and, unsurprisingly, the ruling Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) won a majority of contests in both sets of races. The deepening divide between the RHDP and Ivoirian …
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