US EditionPresident in Côte D'ivoire: Between Disinterest and Resignation, some Ivorians Will Not Vote
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Despite a tense climate and a dull campaign, 8.7 million Ivorians are voting this Saturday for a vote marked by the fourth controversial term of the outgoing Alassane Ouattara.
The first round of the presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire takes place this Saturday, October 25, 2025. While the turnout will be one of the keys to the election, only a few hours from the opening of the polling stations, some voters still say they do not want to slide ballots in the ballot box. For RFI, they express their concerns, disinterest, and dissatisfaction.
Abidjan - The Ivorians voted calmly on Saturday to elect their president, in a private election of opposition leaders and shunned by a part of the population, which is expected to lead to the re-election of Alassane Ouattara, in power since 2011. Nearly 9 million voters were called to vote in order to separate five candidates for the supreme judiciary in this country the world's leading cocoa producer and pole of stability of a region shaken by …
The street demonstrations that Laurent Gbagbo, long adept at a strategy of chaos, has often aroused, have quickly run out of breath, in recent days, in the face of determined law enforcement forces. Until this day in any case. No one yet knows what it will be on Saturday 25 October, the day of the presidential election. It remains that Laurent Gbagbo appeared very discreet during this campaign, a large page of the political history of Côte d'Ivo…
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