In Côte d'Ivoire, we most often attribute cathartic virtues to elections.
The legislative elections, which are being held this Saturday, are no exception to this adage.
The new Assembly should make it possible to heal the wounds left by the presidential election in October and by the very wide re-election (94%) of Alassane Ouattara for a contested third term.
The opposition then boycotted the ballot, driven to
"civil disobedience"
which led to violence leaving dozens of dead.
In the process, several executives of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI), the movement of former President Henri Konan Bédié, were arrested.
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Four months later, the situation has radically changed.
All the major Ivorian parties are appearing before the voters: the ruling RHDP, the PDCI but also Laurent Gbagbo's FPI, a big comeback for this party which had shunned all the polls since 2010 and the political crisis.
In fact, these elections are even the most open
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