Benin continues to slide toward autocracy Tyson Roberts © Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images Police officers walk out of the premises of the Autonomous National Electoral Commission as vote-counting begins in Cotonou, Benin, on April 12. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images) Benin’s April 11 elections have many analysts increasingly concerned that the country is following a recent pattern of democratic decline in Africa. In 1991, Benin was the first former dictatorship to hold multiparty elections in Africa’s post-Cold War wave of democratization. According to one measure of democracy the “two-turnover test” Benin consolidated its democracy in 1996, when a second incumbent president lost reelection.
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