Côte d'Ivoire: le président Alassane Ouattara investi pour un quatrième mandat
President Alassane Ouattara was sworn in on Monday for a fourth term as head of Ivory Coast, during a ceremony at the presidential palace in Abidjan, an AFP journalist observed.
Mr. Ouattara, who will be 84 years old on January 1st, was re-elected on October 25th with nearly 90% of the votes, in an election from which the main opponents were excluded by court decisions.
"Before the sovereign people of Ivory Coast, I solemnly swear on my honor to respect and faithfully defend the Constitution, to embody national unity (...) to conscientiously fulfill the duties of my office in the higher interest of the Nation," said Mr. Ouattara, with his right hand raised and his left hand on the Constitution.
The ceremony was held in the presence of eleven African heads of state (Angola, Congo-Brazzaville, Djibouti, Gabon, Senegal, Comoros, Ghana, Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Mauritania) but also former leaders such as Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger and the Secretary General of the Francophonie, Louise Mushikiwabo.
Outside of Africa, France, contested in West Africa but still a privileged partner of Ivory Coast, was represented by the president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet.
The United States, for its part, sent the US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Jacob Helberg, who was to meet with President Ouattara in the afternoon.
Although the Ivorian president was comfortably re-elected with 89.77% of the vote, half of the voters boycotted the October 25th election, with participation reaching 50.10%.
The two main opposition figures, former president Laurent Gbagbo and Tidjane Thiam, had not given any instructions before the election, from which they were excluded due to their removal from the electoral list, the former for a criminal conviction and the latter for nationality issues.
They were both absent from Monday's inauguration ceremony.
Commentaires (14)
Certains n'ont ni valeurs ni principes . Le panafricaniste c'est du PIPO .
Koth BARMA FALL se remue dans sa tombe . La parole vaut de l'or . KANDO dagne koy same. Lolo moy GOR PIRE
A vaincre sans peril on triomphe sans panache.
Ah Africa
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