The Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix (RHDP) won the majority of Ivorian town halls and regional councils, after the double election on Saturday, according to the Independent Electoral Commission which proclaimed the final results on Monday, September 04, 2023.
It is a tidal wave in favor of the Gathering of Houphouëtistes for Democracy and Peace (RHDP), the party of the president of Alassane Ouattara after the municipal and regional elections of September 2, 2023. The party obtained 125 municipalities out of 201 and 25 regions out of 30. We remember the victory of Prime Minister Patrick Achi, in the Mé, that of Mamadou Touré, the Minister of Youth in Haut-Sassandra; the victory of Anne Ouloto, the Minister of Public Service, in the Cavally (west), that of the minister Director of cabinet of the presidency, Fidèle Sarrassoro in the Poro (north).
The two main opposition parties, the African People’s Party-Côte d’Ivoire (PPA-CI) and the Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI), allies in many localities, are gaining a region, Nawa, and ten communes like Lakota and Bloléquin. Although it has fewer communes compared to the 2018 election, the PDCI of Henri Konan Bédié remains in its fiefs: Yamoussoukro, Daoukro, Toumodi, the Iffou region or in Aries. Outside the alliance, Laurent Gbagbo’s PPA-CI gained two communes.
“Acceptable” Participation
The Ivorian Popular Front loses Moronou, the stronghold of Pascal Affi N’Guessan and comes out of this double election without any elected representatives.
The turnout remains substantially the same in the 2018 elections: it amounts to 44.61% for the regional election and 36.18% for the municipal elections. A rate that the President of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) considers “acceptable”.
