Chronicle of the government crisis in Ivory Coast before December 2010

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Laurent Gbagbo (2007)
Alassane Ouattara (2011)

The chronicle of the government crisis in Ivory Coast before December 2010 records the events related to the government crisis in Ivory Coast 2010/2011 .

The chronology is arranged according to years and months. Events that take effect over a longer period of time are sorted at the earliest possible date.

October 2010

date event place description Note, sources
October 31 First round of voting - The first round of the presidential election took place. As a result of the civil war , the elections originally planned for 2005 were postponed several times. Incumbent Laurent Gbagbo won the first round of elections ahead of his main challenger, Alassane Ouattara .
Majorities in the constituencies after the first ballot:
  • RDR, Alassane Ouattara, Rassemblement des républicains de Côte d'Ivoire
  • PDCI, Henri Konan Bédié, Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire
  • LMP, Laurent Gbagbo, La Majorité Présidentielle

    • November 2010

    date event place description Note, sources
    November 28th Second round of voting The second round of the presidential election took place.
    November 28th Curfew Gbagbo issued a night curfew .
    Evening of November 28th Election result The two camps were roughly aware of the official election results of the election commission .
    30th of November Election result The spokesman for the election commission, Yacouba Bamba , announced on television that Ouattara, according to the first partial results, was 60 percent in the lead.
    Evening of November 30th Election result Abidjan The first attempt at the headquarters of the electoral commission to announce the final results of the election failed. The cameras of the state broadcaster Radiodiffusion-Télévision ivoirienne (RTI) and various international broadcasters such as RFI , BBC , CNN and Radio 24 were present . When the election commission spokesman announced the first partial results, Damana Adia Pickass , a supporter of Gbagbo, prevented him by force and with the words “ We did not authorize these results. “Carrying on. Republican Guard security forces present did not intervene. After that, all observers, journalists and television cameras had to leave the building.

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ a b c Klaus D. Loetzer, Anja Casper: Two presidents and no way out of the political crisis. In: Konrad Adenauer Foundation . December 22, 2010, accessed April 8, 2011 .
    2. ^ Côte d'Ivoire announces first partial vote results. In: Radio France Internationale . November 29, 2010, accessed April 29, 2011 .
    3. ^ Johannes Dieterich: Attack on the opposition candidate. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 1, 2010, accessed April 8, 2011 .