Ivorian politics are never set in stone.
While all announced recently that the presidential election held on Saturday in Côte d'Ivoire would be one of change, it will only be part of an astonishing continuity.
President Alassane Ouattara, 78, is in fact running for a third term as a favorite against a weakened opposition and visibly lacking in strategy.
This third five-year term is at the heart of all controversies and all tensions, giving rise to fears that the country will return to political violence.
It took a constitutional change, voted in 2016, to allow the outgoing president to stand as a candidate by circumventing the two-term limitation.
This reading of the text, a bias known and often used in Africa, was immediately denounced as a "
forfeiture"
by its two main rivals, Pascal Affi N'Guessan, of the FPI, the party of Laurent Gbagbo, and the former president Henri Konan
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