The CNRD decides to
participate in legislative elections

 

Fraternité Matin – Nouveau
Réveil-
After their meeting with the Minister of State, and Minister of Interior, the
members of the National Congress for Democratic Resistance (CNRD) have decided
to take part in the legislative elections. This meeting came after that of last
Saturday at the Minister of state's residence. According to both parties,
important decisions were taken. "I just received the delegation of some parties,
members of the CNRD. I met with them at my home to resume the dialogue between
the state and political parties. This is our second meeting, "Minister Hamed
Bakayoko said to the press. On behalf of the CNRD, Seri Dehoua expressed the
full satisfaction of his delegation. "The Minister of State, on behalf of the
Government, gave us a number of assurances concerning for example the imprisoned
journalists. We felt that the government want to continue the dialogue (...) We
have therefore decided to participate to the elections" he said.

 

The Independent Electoral
Commission allows voters who have lost their voting cards to vote.

 

Agence Ivoirienne de Presse,
Soir Info -
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has decided to allow voters who have
lost their voting card to participate in the legislative elections on December
11. However, according to a statement that AIP was given a copy of, these voters
should be registered on the electoral list and the list of their polling
stations. They must have a copy of their Identity Card with their picture on it.

 

China has offered computers
and computer equipment to the IEC

 

Le Democrate, Nord-Sud, and Le
Patriote -
The Chinese Ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire, Wei Wenhua, offered 180 laptops, 250
desktops, 250 printers, 600 mobile phones, six photocopiers to the Independent
Electoral Commission (IEC) on Monday, at the headquarters of that institution in
II Plateaux. The total cost of this material is 400 million cfa.

 

Bacongo Cissé, the candidate
of the RDR of Koumassi is angry.

 

Soir Info
- Minister Ibrahima Cissé Bacongo, the head of the RDR's candidates in Koumassi
criticized on Monday the fact that the candidate of the PDCI, Ndohi Raymond
deployed in the streets of Koumassi and near his headquarters men in uniform.
''This is unacceptable,'' Bacongo Cissé said. He called the Chief of Staff of
the army, Soumaila Bakayoko, and the commander Issiaka Wattao Ouattara to
express his anger.

 

Gbagbo before the
International Criminal Court: "I do not regret to be here. We have to proceed on
to the end"

 

L'Inter -
Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo appeared on Monday, for the first time
before the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the
organization's headquarters in Hague. We offer you the first statement he made,
himself, on the post-electoral crisis, the role of France and the conditions of
his detention in Cote d'Ivoire and at the ICC.

Madam, the conditions of my
detention by the Court in Hague is correct. These are normal conditions of
detention of a human being. The conditions of my arrest were not. I was arrested
on April 11, 2011 under the French bombs. The residence of the President of the
Republic was bombed from March 31 to April 11. On April 11, the residence was
already completely destroyed. We hide in the holes of the residence. Fifty
French tanks surrounded the residence while French helicopters were bombarding
us. It was in these conditions that I was arrested. I saw before me my interior
minister, Desire Tagro dying. I saw my eldest son- who is still detained in Cote
d'Ivoire. I do not know why he was arrested, perhaps because he is my son-. I
saw him being beaten. I saw my personal physician who was with me, Dr. Blé, who
is still detained in Korhogo being beaten. I thought even he would die. Thanks
God, he did not but Tagro was unlucky. In those circumstances I was arrested. I
do not want to continue because we are not in the trial. It was the French army
that did the work and brought us to Alassane Ouattara's forces, which were not
regular forces of Côte d'Ivoire because the regular forces were working with me.
We were taken to the Hotel du Golf at the campaign headquarters of Mr. Alassane
Ouattara on April 11. And April 13, UNOCI took me and my personal physician to
Korhogo, 600 km north from Abidjan. I was quartered in a house. There were a bed
with mosquito net and a shower. I had two meals a day, at my request, because I
was offered three. But in general, I do not eat three meals a day, I eat only
two. So the problem was not there. But I did not see the sun, I knew what was
happening in the sky when it rained on the roof. I did not see the sun. The few
times I saw the sun is when my lawyers came. They came after solving many
difficulties.

 

Guiglo: Maho Glofiéhi arrested

 

Le Patriote, Fraternité Matin,
Notre Voie, Soir Info, and L'Inter
- Maho Glofiéhi, the leader of the Liberation Front of the Great West (FLGO),
was arrested yesterday. He was arrested by the FRCI. At the announcement of his
arrest, the population as one man rushed at the place of his detention to lynch
him. He was then transported to a military camp in Abidjan.

 

The RDR candidate burnt on
Sunday died yesterday.

 

Soir Info
- Narcisse Gaoudé, the candidate of the RDR in the electoral district of
Logoualé badly burned on Sunday, December 4, 2011, in an apartment in Man is
dead. The true circumstances of what happened to him remained to be elucidated.
Today, it seems that he was murdered.

 

The FRCI burst into a village
of Oumé and killed one resident and injured three.

 

L'Inter
– The Republican Forces of
Cote d'Ivoire killed one resident of Donfohouo in the region of Oumé and wounded
three. The rest of the inhabitants ran away to safety in the forest.