MEPs set to travel to Moldova to observe parliamentary elections europeaninterest.eu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from europeaninterest.eu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Recent electoral dynamics and violence in Côte d Ivoire challenges ECOWAS to reinforce its efforts in the country.
Introduction
Côte d’Ivoire’s presidential election on 31 October 2020 marked the fifth presidential election held in the country since the death of the “
pere foundateur de la nation” (father of the nation), Félix Houphouët-Boigny, in 1993. The election was held in a tense political and volatile security atmosphere, driven by opposition protests against President Alassane Ouattara’s third-term candidacy, which was a breach of the 2016 constitution. The political contest among the political stakeholders also bordered on matters around the electoral code, the voter register, implementation of the constitutional reforms and the composition of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), which opposition parties denounced as non-inclusive, unbalanced and partisan.
Albania’s ruling Socialist Party (SP), led by Prime Minister Edi Rama, has won Sunday’s election with 48% of the vote, handing the party 74 seats in the 140-seat parliament, the same number of seats the party won in the previous election.
It was the “most difficult but sweetest election victory. We have broken the record,” PM Rama told thousands of his flag-waving supporters in Skenderbeg Square in Tirana. “Thank you for the trust you have given me in my third term,” he added.
“My dream is to make Albania in this decade the Balkan champion, in tourism and agro-tourism, in energy and agriculture and in fast, qualitative, incorruptible digital services,” Rama said.
Eisa and Carter Center Deploy 24 Short-term Observers Across Côte D ivoire cartercenter.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cartercenter.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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