Presidential elections in Ivory Coast 2000

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The Ivory Coast 2000 presidential elections were held on October 22, 2000 in Ivory Coast . Robert Guéï , who had headed a "military transitional government" since a military coup in December 1999, was one of the candidates who stood for election. With the exception of Laurent Gbagbo from the Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI), all important potential candidates of the opposition parties were excluded from the election. The Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) and the Parti démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI-RCA) boycotted the elections in response to the exclusion of their candidates, Alassane Ouattara and Emile Constant Bombet , by the Supreme Court as implementation of the Concept d ' Ivoirité . The basis for the exclusion of the promising Ouattara was a newly introduced clause in the electoral law, according to which only people whose parents are Ivorian citizens are allowed to run for president. In addition, voter lists were created in order to check the ivority of voters using new criteria. Many Muslim residents in the north were denied citizenship and thus the right to vote.

In September 2000, shortly before the elections, there was an assassination attempt on Gueï, whose organizer Ibrahim Coulibaly is believed to be. Around 200 Ivorian deserters were involved in the attack.

When Guei had to realize that his rival candidate Laurent Gbagbo and his front Populaire Ivoirien had emerged as the winner of the elections, he refused to recognize the result. Gbagbo had already called on his supporters to protest before the election if there was election manipulation. So after the election there was a general wave of protests in which the FPI supporters prevailed with the help of the gendarmerie sympathizing with the FPI. Guéï was forced to resign and flee. As a result, however, there were further clashes between supporters of the FPI and the RDR, whose candidate Ouattara had already been excluded before the elections. Numerous casualties were the result of these clashes, with most of the victims among the RDR supporters. Most of these Ivorian Muslims, who come from the north, fell victim to pogroms by the gendarmerie , although the FPI were also indirectly accused of the massacres. These events were ultimately the prelude to the civil war in Ivory Coast that began in 2002.

Candidate and party be right proportion of
Laurent Gbagbo - Front Populaire Ivoirien 1,065,597 59.4%
Robert Guéï 587.267 32.7%
Francis Wodié - Parti Ivoirien des Travailleurs 102.253 5.7%
Théodore Mel - Union des Democrates de Côte d'Ivoire 26,331 1.5%
Nicolas Dioulou 13,558 0.8%
total 1,795,006  
Source: African Elections Database

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Individual evidence

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