CÔTE D’IVOIRE / ELECTORAL COMMISSION

Côte d'Ivoire's newly elected Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) officially begins work paving the way for the country's long-delayed presidential elections. UNOCI

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:30
• Production Date: 7 March 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS OPERATIONS IN COTE D'IVOIRE - UNOCI
• Subject Topical: POLITICAL CONDITIONS; POLITICAL MOVEMENTS; PEACE AND SECURITY; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• Geographic Subject: COTE D'IVOIRE
• MAMS Id: U100307a

Description

STORY : CÔTE D’IVOIRE / ELECTORAL COMMISSION
TRT: 2:30
SOURCE: UNOCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 5 MARCH 2010, ABIDJAN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE

Shotlist

1. Various shots, headquarters of Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)
2. Med shot, application submission to new IEC President
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Youssouf Bakayoko, New President, IEC:
“Mr. Robert Mambe Beugre we deliver today the building that has led and we will try to bring him safely.”
4. Med shot, signing books
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Youssouf Bakayoko, New President, IEC:
“All operations, all audits should also be done under the eye of converging the population and the international community.”
6. Wide shot, former IEC President meeting new IEC President
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Robert Mambe Beugre, Former President, IEC:
“Thank God for giving us help to make a little over 95% of difficult and delicate tasks listed in the electoral calendar.”
8. Various shots, IEC members

Storyline

Côte d’Ivoire’s newly elected Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) officially began work on Friday (5 March) paving the way for the country’s delayed presidential elections.

The CEI’s new President, Youssouf Bakayoko, a member of the opposition Democratic Party of Ivory Coast (PDCI), replaced the outgoing President Robert Beugre Mambe.

Earlier this year, in February, Côte d’Ivoire’s President Laurent Gbagbo dissolved the old CEI and requested Prime Minister Guillaume Soro to form a new CEI causing a month-long political crisis in the country.

The CEI will work with the country’s newly formed government to organize free and fair elections to be held in two months as agreed among local parties and Blaise Compaore, President of Burkina Faso and mediator for the political crisis in Côte d’Ivoire.

CEI's new President Bakayoko added that the CEI’s operations will be open and transparent.

The new government was announced last week and includes 11 members of the opposition.