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COTE D’IVOIRE / ELECTION RESULTS

The head of the UN mission in Cote d'Ivoire validates the country's first-round election results, saying they were determined through a "fair and transparent" process and irregularities were of "such minor nature" they did not affect the overall results. ONUCI
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STORYLINE: COTE D’IVOIRE / ELECTION RESULTS
TRT: 2:11
SOURCE: ONUCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 12 NOVEMBER 2010, ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE

1. Wide shot, press conference room
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Y.J. Choi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Cote d’Ivoire, United Nations:
“ In summary, after thorough analysis and evaluation of the first results of the first round of the presidential elections, which took place on 31 October, I have arrived at the conclusion that the process leading to the proclamation of the final results was as a whole peaceful and democratic, and that the results of the elections were determined through a fair and transparent process, and that those anomalies, irregularities, and errors cited above are of such minor nature as to affect in no significant way the overall results of the election. Therefore, based on the five criteria framework for certification, and further to the mandate vested upon me by the Security Council, I hereby certify the final results of the first round of the presidential election held on 31 October 2010.”
3. Pan right, election auditors
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Y.J. Choi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Cote d’Ivoire, United Nations:
“As regards the certification of the results of the elections, I have carefully monitored and assessed the conduct of the various stages leading to the elections, including the registration of candidates for the presidential elections, equitable access to the State media for all candidates, the distribution of voter and identity cards, electoral campaigning from 15 to 29 October, voting on 31 October, ballot counting and tallying, the announcement of the provisional results by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) during the night of 3-4 November, and the proclamation of the final results by the Constitutional Council.”
7. Wide shot, end of press conference

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The United Nations (UN) envoy to Côte d’Ivoire today (12 November) certified the results of the first round of the presidential election in the West African country, paving the way for the run-off on 28 November between the two candidates who garnered the highest number of votes.

Y. J. Choi said the electoral process during the first round held on 31 October was “peaceful and democratic, and that the results of the elections were determined through fair and transparent process.”

The “anomalies, irregularities and errors” brought to his attention were “of such minor nature as to affect in no significant way the overall results of the elections,” he added in a statement made in Abidjan.

The two candidates in the forthcoming run-off are incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo and former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara.

The elections, originally scheduled for as far back as 2005, were repeatedly postponed. They are a major step in restoring stability in the country, which was split by civil war into a Government-held south and rebel Forces Nouvelles-controlled north in 2002.

An additional 500 troops were sent to the country to reinforce the 8,650-strong UN peacekeeping force (UNOCI) and assist with security during the election period.

Choi, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Côte d’Ivoire and head of UNOCI, said that he had “carefully monitored and assessed the conduct of the various stages leading to the elections, including the registration of candidates for the presidential elections, equitable access to the State media for all candidates, the distribution of voter and identity cards.”

He called on all stakeholders to remain committed to the holding of an open, free, fair and transparent second round of the presidential elections, in order to bring the Ivorian crisis closer to a conclusion.

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