The United Nations notes minor
irregularities that do not threaten the international approval for election

Notre Voie  –
(...) The UN Security
Council noted "minor irregularities" in the presidential election held on Sunday
in Côte d'Ivoire, but these did not mar the election, its chairman, the British
ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said on Wednesday. "Minor irregularities have been
registered in this presidential election", but they do not threaten the
international approval for the "decisive phase", said the Council's chairman for
the month of November. He called on all the parties in Côte d'Ivoire to respect
a "democratic, peaceful and transparent" electoral process. (...) The Council
"urges all the candidates to maintain a calm and peaceful environment and accept
the results that will be proclaimed and certified", he added, reading a
statement by the Council. "They also urge all the candidates' supporters to
refrain from any provocation or violence all along the electoral process", he
added. Earlier, the Special Representative of the United Nations for Côte
d'Ivoire, Choi Young-Jin, outlined that the presidential election was "peaceful"
without any violation of human rights. The election was held "in a peaceful
environment", he explained, speaking to the Security Council through a video
conference (VTC) from Abidjan. (...)

 

UNOCI Chief briefs UN Security
Council on situation in Côte d'Ivoire

www.connectionivoirienne.net –
Abidjan, 3
November 2010...
"The Security Council encourages the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI)
to continue to provide support to the crisis-resolution programme in the event
of a second round of the presidential election," the Special Representative of
the UN Secretary-General for Côte d'Ivoire,
Y.J. Choi,
said
after a video conference (VTC) with members of the
Council, on Wednesday, 3
November 2010. According to Mr. Choi, the Security Council had expressed
complete satisfaction with the situation in Côte d'Ivoire, where on 31 October,
in a peaceful climate marked by an obvious success, the presidential election
was held with 80% participation. He also said that the Council was very
interested in the Ivorian situation. "UNOCI must continue to provide support to
the Ivorian authorities," he stressed. (...)

 

UNOCI chief
discusses next steps in electoral process

Le Nouveau Réveil  -
The
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte
d'Ivoire, Y.J. Choi, on Wednesday, 3 November 2010, exchanged views with
Boureima Badini, the Special Representative of the Facilitator, who had come to
assess the presidential election and the ongoing announcement of the results.
Mr. Badini told journalists that the meeting, which was held 72 hours after the
presidential election, was part of the regular and urgent consultations between
him and Mr. Choi, which requires their common point of view. In this context,
the Special Representative of the Facilitator said, they discussed the upcoming
electoral phases and examined the difficulties which could arise and how to
resolve them. "It is a very good thing that everything is going well but our
role is to anticipate possible problems and solve them, in order to help
Ivorians resolve the crisis", he said.

 

 

October 31
Presidential election – here are the provisional results of the Independent
Electoral Commission.

Le Patriote–the
suspense is over. Yesterday night, the chairman of the Independent Electoral
Commission, Youssouf Bakayoko, gave the provisional results of the first round
of the presidential election on 31 October. The former Prime Minister Alassane
Ouattara, will defend the RHDP against Laurent Gbagbo. (...) So, after
deliberation, the Central Commission of the IEC has approved the following
results:

Number
of polling: 19945

Number
of registered: 5725720

Number
of participants: 4837579

Number
of invalid votes: 221,655

Number
of votes obtained by each candidate:

Felix
Yao Akoto: 4767 or 0.10%

Anaky
Kobena Innocent Augustin: 10,661 or 0.23%

Aimé
Henri Konan Bédié: 1165219 or 25.24%

Dolo
Adama: 5967 or 0.13%

Enoh Aka:
5911 or 0.12%

Laurent
Gbagbo: 1755495 or 38.30%

Gnamien
Konan: 7151 or 0, 37%

Konan
Kouadio Simeon: 12,355 or 0.27%

Lohoues
Jacqueline Oble: 12,223 or 0.27%

Albert
Mabri Toikeusse: 118,664 or 2.57%

Alassane
Ouattara: 1480610 or 32.08%

Pascal
Tagoua: 11,672 or 0.25%

Henry
Tohu: 2422 or 0.05%

Francis
Romain Wodié: 13,397 or 0.29%.

 

First
round of the presidential election: PDCI demands a recount of votes.

Soir Info  –
The
PDCI-RDA notes that the
presidential election on October 31, 2010 took place in a generally satisfactory
atmosphere despite some acts of violence recorded here and there in the forest
areas. The PDCI-RDA also notes the strong turnout of Ivorians to vote,
indicating a real desire for change. However, the PDCI-RDA denounces the climate
of opacity maintained by the Independent Electoral Commission during the ballots
counting, and the counting of votes. Thus the candidates' representatives were
not allowed to take part in the centralization or the consolidation of the
results as agreed. Besides, the European Union's Election Observation Mission in
Côte d'Ivoire noted that opacity and found unacceptable the refusal of the IEC
to allow access without "rational explanation" to its offices in several places
in the country to observers. The mission also found problematic the routing of
the minutes of the polls to Abidjan and their treatment. In this same vein, many
elements in PDCI's possession proved the suspicion surrounding the process of
the declaration of the results. Thus, there are errors in calculation of votes
obtained by candidate BEDIE in many localities including Soubré where the IEC
has proclaimed for BEDIE 55,971 votes instead of 56 129 and 31 126 Laurent
Gbagbo votes instead of 30 472. It is the same in Grand Bassam where the
candidate Laurent Gbagbo is credited with 22,189 votes instead of 12 000, making
a gap of more than 10,000 votes. Those abnormalities are found in several
localities of the country. Because of these abnormalities, the PDCI-RDA doubt
the credibility of the results proclaimed. The PDCI-RDA denounces the manifest
desire to tamper the results. The PDCI-RDA wants the IEC to stop the
proclamation of results and the recount of the ballots.

 

Bouaflé, Issia,
Gagnoa... - President Gbagbo' supporters drive away Baoulé from their villages

Le Patriote
 –The
FPI wants to settle its accounts. Already! A few hours after the beginning of
the announcement of the votes of the first round of the presidential election,
supporters of Laurent Gbagbo have decided to attack the Baoulés in the Centre
West region. In Bouaflé, Issia, Gagnoa and other localities, the Baoulés have
been hunted on the orders of FPI's officials in the region. In Bouaflé, the
Baoulés of Banfla, a village located 20 km from the capital of the Marahoué
region were hunted by activists of the FPI under the order of Mr. Bi Zaha
Zagora, a former member of PDCI-RDA who has turned FPI. People evicted from the
village took refuge in the lobby of a Christian library in Bouaflé. The refugees
in Bouaflé are mainly women and children. The men preferred to stay behind to
defend their property. According to some sources, one man died in the clashes.
In Issia, the Baoulés have suffered the same fate. FPI activists, unhappy with
the score of Laurent Gbagbo in this locality, have taken over Baoulé villages.
They accuse the Baoulés of voting massively for Henri Konan Bédié, even though
motorcycles and money were distributed to the

Baoulés and their representatives
by Minister
Désiré Tagro, departmental campaign director for the presidential camp, so they
can persuade their community to vote for Laurent Gbagbo. In Gagnoa, it was the
same situation where Ivorians who had not voted for Laurent Gbagbo were
threatened. The situation is tense in centre west.