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global music makers and talk about the stories that are known to 0. with elections lead to stability in ivory coast votes is their choose a new parliament of followers for filing a presidential election so will this western african country who come to terms this is inside story. hello again welcome to the program today with me pizza topping our after months of political turmoil verses of cast their ballots to choose legislatures in ivory coast the poll is seen as a test of the nation's debility after a presidential election last november did lead to violence at least 85 people were killed hundreds were wounded president allison watson as opponents have disputed

his bid for a 3rd now 2 of them have teamed up in a coalition to prevent him from expanding his power only conan baby and long fielded parliamentary candidates on a joint list the 2 former presidents of boycotted the presidential elections opening the way for ouattara to win by a landslide that address reports now from abidjan. the election is seen as a key test for president ouattara and the governing arctic to be parted after december contentious presidential elections the opposition stayed away from that vote now their participation in the legislative election is seen as a strategy of move to remain politically relevant until the next presidential elections in 5 years while the opposition sounds a bit about the outcome of the legislative elections there are people in this country who feel that it was a big mistake. from the presidential elections in the 1st place now their own party wants to win at least 148 seats in parliament enough for walking majority

opposition. from happening insisting that granting the r.h. the absolute majority in parliament is dangerous for the country and that ivory coast could slide to a one party state which could be dangerous for its democracy. or in fact story. well worse or is election victory in 2010 led to a civil war that killed 3000 people lower on back bo was forcibly removed at the time and handed over to the international criminal court he faced charges of war crimes he was acquitted however in 2019 a constitutional amendment following a referendum in 2016 allowed ouattara to seek a 3rd term in october the opposition considered his bid unconstitutional and violent protests broke out after that now the 79 year old leader whose government for more than a decade won with 94 percent of the vote but his opponents who boycotted the vote did not accept the result the opposition agreed to take part in this month's parliamentary poll after watter as government made gestures of conciliation they

included the conditional release of several detained opposition leaders. ok there we are here we go let's bring in our guests today on inside story in a crowd we have festus coffee or been a regional coordinator for research and. prosody building at the west african network for peace building in uppsala we have yes but b.n. assen senior researcher at the nordic africa institute we have david gen senior research a consultant at the institute for security studies and formerly a member of the u.n. group of experts on court d'ivoire welcome to you all festus coming to you 1st will do we think mr ouattara is hand be stronger politically at the end of this process or not and thank you very much. i

think best private dinner then then we spent. 3 elections i.c.e. tara. so when perhaps the. international concern really though maybe there are gaps between. this privacy and also includes a bit. too in the. mainstream source i think that he was so much. power by the intend so. i i don't see that. perhaps maybe there will be some. means in terms of the number of seats that he may have in international and. in pretoria how much real balance could we see once we know what the

results are completely fully because it seems to me as far as the people of ivory coast are concerned democracy and the desire for democracy is alive and well but you need an opposition if to get that achievement of balance in the political system. it's a little bit of the norm to your. 'd 'd listeners that balance is very important particularly in the force for example is actually celtic the national election contest. where what i see in 2 completely limited to see by the day has been somebody and i'm. talking about. the theory which is what he's argued for the love and peace for the more question peace has broken up what's your daughter's decision by what our schools stand in for that said the tam now little body knows it that lee what impact this is going to have are not on

the political landscape because you want but let me remind you of these before 22 of the then what. are we to do then the republican not rally and the f.b.i. which is that there were locked rooms. for the the democratic party because it was led by former president reagan up the gate where almost had to get 5 percent of the political landscape now a period of change and evolve. it is not clear if the presidency which remain one of its hunger for this party and cause it was will keep that momentum i believe they want to be solicited by that alliance with another big party which is a broad robust board at the. door screen vote who would be a fair law to be able to prepare for 2020 seats and they are not spared the brunt

by warwick to i mean 'd because it was as galvanized the answer is yes and off it's he's get support ok who have not been involved active water for the past 10 years so people would guess where and see what are those then it will produce the result in the argument of whoever is going let me. just just knock that point forward if we can you're talking about the next show jeweled elections which i happen to jews happen in 2025 or 26 as you correctly say yes but. how much genuine support does whatever i have at the moment and more to the point why does he have it i think that's what part of what these legislative elections will actually give us a hint are you sort of one set as popularity and you just missy following their very controversial presidential elections last year and i think that we if we look back to the last time that these 3 major players in our in politics confronted each

other so back but what their own beauty is which was in 2010 presidential elections they did share their vote almost equally among them so it will be very interesting to see i would speculate that there probably will see a similar distribution of our support at least and the question is of course how it will be expressed in the polls but i think that whatever has strengthened his. 3rd term sort of legitimacy just by the fact that the opposition is standing in the elections now as in contrast to the point cut of the presidential elections last year festus inaccurate do we have a kind of a counter-intuitive disconnect here between the democratic political process and what people are voting on so clearly the opposition and the independent candidates they've got to show point number one that they are relevant but none of those opposition candidates are talking about the central britain butter issues the core

political issues that people always vote on every candidate seems to me is talking about every other candidate and it's like a political beauty contest more than people voting on what's important to them. yes i think it's also because of what has happened to resent past i mean following the boycott of the presidential elections last year i think this is a time for the opposition parties to like you rightly pointed out to test their popularity within the population and if you look at the events following before the parliamentary elections you see the intense of the post characters that normally create tensions and or that were quite down as compared to . previous elections and i see this election as

a small less toll was there a consultation process that is ongoing within the country and. if you take the f.b.i. the bible fashion for example i see their participation in this election for example to prepare the ground for but those. 10 so intent i would jump at their eyes that peace and that would jeopardize the conditions for bubbles retain and we're not immune to the. benefits so more or less is being jet towards the stability of the country the peace processes in the country and like you said not about the bread and butter issues that people. always look ill have to by the of course i mean people are also. not happy with the state

or school and if you look at some of the conversation with some of the population a lot of people want change you know because of the kind of social commitment challenges that confront them every day. bad it seems to me that this particular parliamentary election is more or less an issue of how the pilots kept resistance in. every cause for ok.e. the sas and all actions yes for coming back to you that idea of the politicians accepting what they're being told because again and again and again the voters that we've been reporting with here on al-jazeera saying the same thing we're voting for peace do the politicians really genuinely in a trustworthy sense i.e. can they be trusted do they get that because elections in ivory coast they've they've been a ritual they've gone through the motions they've gone through the process has had

a ritualistic element to it but people haven't really trusted some of the elections that they've had particularly of course after independence 1960 going up when the economy started dipping in the very very early 1980 s. people started doubting elections at that point when the economy started going downhill so do all the politicians realise there is a genuine need for change it. i think that's a really crucial issue i would say that 1st of all that allison was or still has he has something left to prove in terms of his ability to reconcile the country following a conflict that ended in after after a very messy election in 2010. i would say that that 1st of all i agree that that over in politics has been very sensitive around these 3 main characters back. for decades now and they have not really set put the country's

stability 1st they have used their supporters to mobilize in any way necessary to sort of mate never receives are heard which is highly problematic so i think that's something that's really left very as a very open question i would say and i've heard the same thing from people i've met include people who are over the past 5 years is that people want stability people want to be able to rely on. a company tickle scene and a political debate closer to the real issues rather than just a popularity contest as you put it so i think that is we did a big question and what's arrest ill has something to prove there he may even even be remembered as the leader who is able to take an approach step towards reconciliation or the leader who kept going to the flames are sort of the. animosity between the different parts. david in pretoria mr ouattara is facing a strong combined challenge his 2 main challenges have got together plus their

independent candidates as well canet coalition stay coalesced if they do well in the election well i was saying that some of the words we see in all of you as a very interesting development for pete and i were on bubble and. to see if it is the very core of it gets together to challenge us on what and the susteren from the conditioning we produce a lesson to prius which is for the defrag every deal with the market as it's reprocess you know import you was a war they tend to do is are to team up and when you're it you have a 255 seats in the parliament to press i always tried to correlate with what us whatever was missing the democratization process but could you are political

history as a show in that iran has made and broken card into what is at stake for parties involved we've seen many times f.b.i. and pretty c.e.o. the idea coalesce in the creating of well listen to gates is on point and they're not of the will power of the rich what they want to do regard limited view limited in that area like this and that that will become problematic so it's good for them to be together now it's good for them to send a message that they want the rest of it to the critic traditional of course the war reprocessed peace and reconciliation the cellular message to the supporters but what will happen once they reach the parliament is some is certainly going to be sort of in france and what you were here is a 1000000 spurious he said to that yes in uppsala that i. the a of getting your message across to the voters you've already touched on this but just just to nail it down for us here is mr watts are missing a step missing

a beat if you will in as much as his aides are talking up his social and economic policies he's not why is he taking this weird decision almost to not talk about policies but he's going along to rallies he's being seen as somebody who wants to carry on being a major political force well i think it's very symptomatic of this so-called popularity contest that is a role in politics i think that especially since both barack or n.b.a. are back in the game now we are back to to an atmosphere where it is as a direct confrontation between these 3 dinosaurs of or in politics which gives leaves very little room for actually talking about issues and they agree that it's particularly sort of paradoxical when it comes to the sitting president especially given his very positive no record on at least on on macro economic growth since

2011 and you could see why it's been one of the fastest growing economies well right now in the last 567 years so it's very strange that he's not more concerned with bringing out his own its achievements but i think it is a symptom of this. personal contest between these 3 elderly gentleman and i think the only the only real way out of that kind of. house and sense of politics is for these 3 gentlemen to leave over the political scene to another to a new generation which is something you want to flag before he decided to run for the. festus urban in accra other politicians aware that there is the basics here are still wide open and everything is to play for the country despite coronavirus despite troubles over the past year over the election at the end of last year has avoided recession there are not risk averse investors

waiting to get into the country literally and there's something of a building spree going on in the main cities there is inward investment already money is already being spent the people know that the politicians don't seem to be aware of it yes. i think i think when it comes to the konami issues or stability economic issues within the country. like the progress i mean we mentioned i think what is dream world in terms of if you compared to most of the post conflict countries within the region. i don't want this as take at the moment is the. national who has a national reconciliation process that will bring all the political actors to consolidates the relative peace and also the economy that have been made over the

past years and that this way if you look at this particular election you see the issues total more towards issues of stability and making sure that quote if one has no go down like what happened 2011 or so i think the issues of peace and reconciliation has more than. taking most of the political campaign this time around and also in terms of the. the venomous within the opposition. elements and ordeyne so the issue of stability and the issue of consolidating the. peace in the i think has been the most important issue in this election and also for mr ouattara himself if you look

at the boycott of the election it also happened to his they did to myself so anything that has been done to get opposition parties involved in this election to also more or less cringing the legitimacy that is happy has. quote of the ok job it comes to 1st 2nd in pretoria just pick up for me if you can't have it on the point that yes but i was raising david you've already mentioned the next elections there's a show in $25.00 or $26.00 if these 3 elderly gentleman that yes it was talking about do badly might this be the beginning of a 4 or 5 year political process of a shakedown if you will in as much as they've got to then move off the political stage in ivory coast and allow the younger generation to come in behind them to run

the country in a different way with perhaps fresh ideas ideas that aren't rooted in colonialism ideas that aren't rooted in oh we've been independent now since 1960 the economy started tanking in the eighty's but we can turn it around people who genuinely look forward instead of looking backwards. you know there could be and so if you for one sir and that's where you just want to do one element or 1st us are directly as plain or yes could be war record prices or economy. chipman then we see of the poor currently component in the country but here lies the challenge how. it's been distributed across the board to meet the needs of the need of a citizens i think we hear a lot of that in the presence of we cared a lot about it during the during the quarter since election and probably that will remain one of the key issues that will confront the political actors how to come up

to your questions in trade these elections and of the years to. create of popularity for the release of political elites in our in the war i do not see what are more 78 years old running for 2 more 2 more terms in the office or big deal of the war so this is i would say the very last day for them to remain significant in the political scene and if there is still that i may be better off there's no age limit to their constitutional requirements to become president there may still be very much influential so what they're going to do what they what's going to be on the agenda is to prepare the younger generation of i don't we lined up with the war of words as i agree as you said and the groups that are removed from the yoke of color are really small and look at structural elements that need

for quality of work to remain in this time of the economy ok still for considered it's been to be ok the passing of very very briefly last point to be honest and upsala can this country ever really return to the good old days because there was a point 1st 20 years when it was ivory coast it had one of the highest g.d.p.'s in all of africa across the continent barnum. i think there's plenty of potential i think that what president wants or has done extremely well is the yes yes started to go. to to implement reforms in the in the cocoa sector which is the driving force of your own economy still he's talked about diversifying which is also key so i think there are some real interesting economic achievements there and it's not surprising given that watson is a former i.m.f. economist and i think what has been lacking is sort of

a translation of that macroeconomic. sort of achievement to the really the lives of ordinary people there's still massive there unemployment inequality and cetera so i think there's plenty of potential and of course not just around the cocoa sector. could be wiser to further our country but it's also a country with extensive change connections both within the continent and internationally so i think all the all the ingredients are there it's just about translating that into. it even if that meant that can actually be felt by the people and not just in macroeconomic numbers gentleman a very important story thank you so much to all 3 of you for breaking it down for us here on inside story thank you to our guests they were 1st as coffee or been yes but be honest and there are many and thank you to you too for your company you can see the show again any time with a website out of your dot com and for more discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash raging inside story you can also talk to us via twitter at a.j.

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