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the Electoral Commission received the case files with 23 candidates

In Burkina Faso, the submission of candidacies for the presidential election on November 22 has been closed since yesterday Friday at midnight. The Independent National Electoral Commission received 23 cases. Among the graduates are three women and several independent. On October 10, Ceni will announce the official list of candidates for the presidential election. with our correspondent in Ouagadougou On the receipt list of files, we find the heavyweights from politics in Burkina Faso such as Roch Marc Christian…

presidential candidates protest against “discriminatory” conditions

Let's go to the submission of candidacies for the presidential election on November 22nd. The declared candidates have until 2 October to present themselves to the Independent National Electoral Commission (Céni) with their case file. However, some candidates face conditions for running that they consider "discriminatory". It is the school and university board adviser Issa Sawadogo, independent graduate, who was received first with her case file. An incomplete file because it was unable to collect either the sum of…

Who are the four candidates standing for Ivory Coast’s presidential election?

Ivory Coast Constitutional Court ruled last week that only four out of 44 presidential hopefuls would be allowed to run in the country's presidential election. Because they face criminal convictions, former President Laurent Gbagbo and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro, both giants of Ivorian politics, were among those prevented from running. Most of the others whose candidates were deemed invalid had failed to garner sufficient public support - a new electoral reform required candidates to request signatures from at…