Ivory Coast’s ruling party and the main opposition both claimed victory Sunday in the West African nation’s legislative elections, with the official results still to be announced.
“We have achieved our goal of securing around 60 percent of the seats,” declared Adama Bictogo, number two in the ruling RHDP party.
Early trends from local election commissions “clearly show that our party will emerge victorious with a comfortable majority”, he added.
Earlier Sunday the centre-right Ivory Coast Democratic Party (PDCI) opposition party claimed it had won Saturday’s legislative elections, alleging that preliminary results were riddled with irregularities.
“We think we have around 128 seats with our allies” in the 255-seat National Assembly, top opposition party official Niamkey Koffi told a news conference in the economic capital Abidjan.
“Our concern is that the results may be manipulated,” said Koffi, warning the government against “any attempt to falsify”…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
