adminCote d’Ivoire is due to go to the polls on 11 December to elect a new parliament, a key step in its recovery from a civil war and a test for President Alassane Ouattara as he tries to solidify his mandate over a divided country.
A former Gbagbo spokesman said three of the eight main pro-Gbagbo parties in Ivory coast would participate in the polls following conciliatory gestures from the government, having earlier boycotted the vote over alleged unfair treatment.
An official of Gbagbo’s own former party, the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), said ten of its members had been suspended from the party after putting forward their names as candidates for the 255-seat legislature. “All members of the FPI who have put themselves forward as candidates have been suspended for indiscipline,” said Sylvain Miaka Ouretto, interim party president. “They are not acting in the name of the party.” — AP.
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