Independent Electoral Commission (Ivory Coast)
The Independent Electoral Commission of the Ivory Coast ( French Commission Électorale Indépendante de Côte d'Ivoire ) or CEI for short is an Ivorian authority. She was responsible for conducting the 2010 presidential elections in Ivory Coast . Its president is Youssouf Bakayoko , a party member of the Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire .
history
The Independent Electoral Commission was established as a constitutional body to organize the elections on October 9, 2001.
Before the Ivorian military coup in December 1999, the organization of the elections was taken care of by the Ministry of the Interior.
Yacouba Bamba, spokesman for the electoral commission, announced on television on November 29, 2010 that Alassane Ouattara , according to the first partial results, was 60 percent in the lead.
On the evening of November 30th, the first attempt at the headquarters of the CEI electoral commission to announce the final results of the 2010 presidential elections failed. The cameras of the state broadcaster Radiodiffusion-Télévision ivoirienne (RTI) and various international broadcasters such as RFI , BBC , CNN and Radio24 were present . When the CEI spokesman announced the first partial results, Damana Adia Pickass , a supporter of the then President Laurent 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.
On the night of December 1st to 2nd, 2010, Chairman Bakayoko announced Alassane Ouattara's victory with 54 percent. Confusion was caused by the fact that Bakayoko announced the result at the Hotel du Golf , where Ouattara is based. No cameras from the state television broadcaster RTI were present. Gbagbo appealed against this decision to the Constitutional Council headed by one of his confidants, Paul Yao-Ndré . The Constitutional Council approved the motion because it was not promulgated on time, and the country has had two presidents since then. The result was a bloody government crisis that lasted for months.
criticism
Some political observers do not consider the election commission to be really independent, as it is dominated by supporters of the opposition. Gbagbo had only dissolved the CEI in the spring of 2010 and filled it with Youssouf Bakayoko because he had accused the organization, headed by Robert Mambé , of incorrectly including 430,000 people from the north, which tended to support Ouattara, in the electoral register.
Web links
- Commission Electorale Indépendante. In: web presence. Retrieved December 19, 2011 (French).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ Constitution du 1er août 2000
- ↑ la loi n ° 2001-634 du 9 octobre 2001, article 32, alinéa 4
- ^ Côte d'Ivoire announces first partial vote results. In: Radio France Internationale . November 29, 2010, accessed April 29, 2011 .
- ^ Johannes Dieterich: Attack on the opposition candidate. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 1, 2010, accessed April 8, 2011 .
- ↑ Ivory Coast has two presidents. In: Spiegel Online . December 4, 2010, accessed April 8, 2011 .
- ↑ David Lewis, Tim Cocks: Ivory Coast poll winner named, army seals borders. In: Reuters . December 2, 2010, accessed January 8, 2011 .
- ↑ David Robert, Anja Casper: Is Côte d'Ivoire plunging into another political crisis? In: Konrad Adenauer Foundation. February 18, 2010, accessed April 8, 2011 .