Ivory Coast President Alasen Autara said on Tuesday that he would seek the fourth term in the country’s October 25 presidential election, while the boycott of many major opposition candidates increases tension.
OUATTARA was nominated by his party, The Rally of Hopotists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP), but waited until Tuesday.
However, the opposition has said that the fourth term would be unconstitutional.
“I am a candidate because the Constitution of our country allows me to run for another term and my health allows it,” said Oatara.
Who is Alasen Autara?
83 -year -old Outara is a former international banker and has led the Ivory Coast since 2011. Earlier, he had said that he likes to be old.
For trained economists in Oatara, America, has long been able to give her constant development as a sensible technocrat.
The number of this year supports the IMF that corresponds to the average since the last decade, with a GDP increase of 6.3%.
Shadow of election violence
OUATTARA has made deals that helped him win two earlier reunion and in 2010, after defeating Laurent Gagbo, stopped that kind of widespread violence.
Refusing to accept the defeat gave rise to a letter Civil War, killing more than 3,000 people and ended only when he was arrested in a bunker at his Abidadan residence.
After completing its limit of two conditions, Otara was run to run for only one third after resetting his time in a new constitution office. The opposition boycotted the 2020 vote, and Autara won by a landslide. However, what happened when votes, when at least 85 people were killed in upcoming unrest.
Political analyst Arthur Banga stated that Oatara’s “primary success is on the macroeconomic side” and restoring the “international impact” of the Ivory Coast.
He said, “But citing the possibility of violence related to elections, he said,” But there are quiet democratic challenges. ,
Critics accused the President of holding his hold on power and strongly opposed his reunion dialect.
The opposition has accused the authorities that they should use the legal mood to target their rivals and exclude Otara’s opponents from the election.
The most prominent rival of OUATTARA, Tidjane Thiam, which was legally run when a court ruled that he was a French citizen when he later declared his candidature despite abandoning his French nationality. The Evorian law banns double citizens from running for the President.
The government urges that the judiciary operates independently.
Two main opposition parties have launched a joint campaign demanding to restore their forbidden leaders before the presidential election.
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