US EditionOpposition loses all seats in Benin election weeks after a thwarted coup, provisional results show
Low 36.7% turnout and a new 20% vote threshold barred opposition from seats, leaving only pro-president parties in Benin's 109-seat assembly, pending court confirmation.
- Electoral commission announcements Saturday evening indicated opposition parties lost all parliamentary seats, with only the Republican Bloc and the Progressive Union for Renewal winning assembly seats in Cotonou, Benin.
- Under the new electoral code, parties must meet a 20% threshold nationally and in each of the 24 electoral districts, but The Democrats won around 16%, failing to gain seats.
- Official tallies show seat counts of 49 and 60, with turnout reported at 36.73%, the commission said.
- Constitutional Court must confirm the provisional results as the presidential election in April proceeds with Patrice Talon, 67, barred and Romuald Wadagni, Finance Minister, as front-runner.
- The legislative vote followed a brief, foiled takeover and critics say President Patrice Talon clamped down on opposition amid recent regional coups across Africa.
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Opposition loses all seats in Benin election weeks after a thwarted coup, provisional results show
Provisional election results in Benin show that opposition parties lost all parliamentary seats weeks after a thwarted coup.
The provisional results published by the National Independent Electoral Commission confirm the hegemony of the two parties that support the Beninese head of state. As in 2019, the main opposition party, Les Démocrates, will not sit in the hemicycle.
No opposition MP will sit in the next National Assembly. The main opposition party, the Democrats, has not won at least 20 percent of the votes cast in all 24 electoral districts, as required by law. Two parties, therefore from the majority in power, the UPR and the BR share the 109 seats.
One month after a frustrated state coup attempt, the benefactors were in the Urns on 11 January for legislative and local elections. The rate of participation was 36.73% (compared to 37% in 2023), according to the National Electoral Commission (CENA). Only two political parties of the presidential alliance were able to meet 20% of the votes in each of the 24 electoral circles so that they could sit in the Legislative Assembly, as required by the…
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