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L-R: Mr. Emmanuel Tando, NEC Chair/host, Beniin, Madam Davidetta Browne Lansanah (Liberia NEC Chairperson), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu (Chairman, INEC, Nigeria) and Mr. Ahmed Newton Barry, chairman, INEC of Burkina Faso assembled in Cotonou to peer-support each other.
Davidetta Browne Lansanah, chairperson of the National Elections Commission (NEC) of Liberia has joined her Nigerian and Burkina Faso counhterparts in a peer support and learning mission on elections matters in the sub-region.
NEC’s communication’s department has disclosed through a press statement that Madam Lansanah has gone to Benin to witness and learn from that country’s own style of democracy relative to elections matters.
The fight for Benin’s democratic future
April 12, 2021 Demonstrators blocked this road in the town of Toui on Wednesday
Voters in Benin are taking part in elections after protests over President Patrice Talon’s broken promise to serve only one term in office left two people dead.
There are just two other candidates on the ballot, in a country dubbed the birthplace of African multiparty democracy.
Alassane Soumanou of the opposition FCBE party is a former minister, while Corentin Kohoué is seen as more of a wildcard.
Several key opposition figures – including an ex-prime minister and a former mayor of the biggest city Cotonou – have either been arrested and ruled ineligible or are now in exile.
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