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COTE D'IVOIRE ELECTIONS WRAP
STORY: COTE D’IVOIRE / ELECTIONS WRAP
TRT: 02:29
SOURCE: UNOCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 OCTOBER 2015, ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE
25 OCTOBER 2015, ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE
1. Pan left-to-right, exterior of primary school used as a polling station / voters gathering in primary school’s yard
2. Med shot, woman casting her vote
3. Med shot, Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) officer stamping voter’s sheet
4. Med shot, voters’ ID cards
5. Med shot, Godda Emmanuel Callixte, Bank Officer, walking in primary school’s yard
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Godda Emmanuel Callixte, Bank Officer:
“I came to vote this morning and I have noticed that things are happening in a quiet and serene environment.”
7. Various shots, exterior school used as a polling station and voters waiting to cast their vote
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Ouattara Daouda, Abidjan Transport Society Machinist:
“The schools are well organised. There have been no disturbances, everything is going well. Each one of the voters is here to choose his or her candidate and that’s all. This is why we have been here since this morning: to wait for our turn to vote.”
9. Med shot, voters helping elderly to walk towards polling station
10. Wide shot, presidential convoy
11. Wide shot, journalists waiting outside polling station
12. Pan right-to-left, Côte d’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara, accompanied by First Lady Dominique Folloroux, walking towards Sainte Marie high-school to cast his vote
13. Med shot, IEC officers waiting for the President’s arrival
14. Med shot, Ouattara greeting observers and journalists inside polling station
15. Med shot, Côte d’Ivoire Minister of Interior and Defence Hamed Bakayoko greeting Canadian Ambassador Patricia McCullagh
16. Pan left-to-right, Ouattara walking with ballot paper
17. Med shot, reporters
18. Med shot, Ouattara and First Lady voting
19. Various shots, IEC agents counting votes in front of presidential candidates’ representatives
20. SOUNDBITE (French) Koffi Kouame Jonasse, IEC officer:
“Everything went well, it was calm and tranquil. All the voters who came by here were satisfied. Everything went well.”
21. Various shots, IEC officers counting votes
22. Pan right-to-left, exterior polling station
STORYLINE: Millions of Ivoirians cast their vote on Sunday (25 Oct) for the first presidential elections since the civil war ended in 2011.
Some 20,000 polling stations nationwide opened their doors at 7am for the first round of votes, with Côte d’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara poised to win a second term, in elections seen by many as a stability test for the country.
Some voters observed that the atmosphere at polling stations had been “quiet and serene.”
Godda Emmanuel Callixte, Bank Officer from Abidjan, said “I came to vote this morning and I have noticed that things are happening in a quiet and serene environment.”
Ouattara Daouda, a Machinist working at Abidjan’s Transport Society, said there were no disturbances and that “everything is going well. Each one of the voters is here to choose his or her candidate and that’s all. This is why we have been here since this morning: to wait for our turn to vote.”
President Ouattara and First Lady, Dominique Folloroux cast their vote at the Sainte Marie high-school, among a throng of reporters and observers.
Meanwhile, as polls closed, election officers began counting the votes in front of candidates’ representatives and observers.
Last week, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the presidential elections stakeholders’ commitment to participate in the voting process in a peaceful and transparent manner, noting in a statement taht “a successful electoral process is the responsibility of all concerned.”
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