In Côte d’Ivoire, while the political dialogue, which began with the Ouattara-Bédié meeting, seems to have marked time, the ruling party is already looking at the legislative election. The latter, originally scheduled for December, should be postponed for several months to take place during the first quarter, Alassane Ouattara said two weeks ago. This Monday, November 30, Abidjan, the director of the RHDP, Adama Bictogo, received the party’s regional and departmental leaders to put them in working order.
as reported from Abidjan, Pierre Pinto
To the regional and departmental heads of the RHDP, Adama Bictogo gave two key words: to express compassion and support for victims of violence and, above all, to prepare for the choice of law. “The coming months will be for us months during which the RHDP will have to occupy the entire territory in order to translate the majority as we expressed it during the presidential election on 31 October 2020,” he stressed.
RHDP officials did not wait for these instructions to roam in their fiefdoms, especially in the central regions of Côte d’Ivoire, more pre-election and post-election violence.
Minister of Communications Sidi Tourés is thus returned to Sakassou last weekend. His trade colleague, Souleymane Diarassouba, was in Yamoussoukro, and his private investment manager, Emmanuel Essis Esmel, was in Dabou, where sixteen people were killed in clashes before the presidential election.
Although the date of the legislation has not yet been set, it is therefore necessary for the RHDP to occupy the land, in particular a sign that the “civil disobedience” initiated by the opposition is not taken lightly. Despite the start of the Ouattara-Bédié political dialogue, the opposition officially maintains its slogan, which is recalled by the president of the PDCI’s young people.
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