Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has secured a fourth time period in an election which two of his largest challengers have been barred from, provisional outcomes present.
Ouattara, 83, received 89.8% of the vote, the electoral fee mentioned on Monday, and businessman Jeal-Louis Billon got here a distant second with solely 3.09%.
The landslide victory will not be an enormous shock, as after being banned from the presidential race, former President Laurent Gbagbo and Credit score Suisse ex-CEO Tidjane Thiam had urged their supporters to boycott the vote.
Voter turnout reached simply 50.1%, in keeping with the electoral fee.
Monday’s outcomes are provisional and the ultimate consequence will likely be introduced by the Constitutional Council after it guidelines on any election petitions.
On Sunday, the opposition group made up of Gbagbo and Thiam’s events denounced the election as a “civilian coup d’etat,” saying they’d not recognise Ouattara as a validly elected chief.
Ouattara first assumed the presidency in 2011, following Gbagbo’s arrest after his refusal to just accept defeat within the 2010 election.
Ouattara was initially restricted to serving two phrases, however a 2016 constitutional overhaul allowed him to hunt re-election in 2020, in a vote that was boycotted by the opposition.