Thu, 02 Dec 2010
Nairobi/Abidjan (Earth Times - dpa) - Ivory Coast's opposition candidate Alassane Ouattara has won the presidential run-off election with 54 per cent of the vote, the West African nation's electoral body said Thursday.
Results have been delayed for days as President Laurent Gbagbo disputed several regions in Ouattara strongholds, saying they were not valid.
However, the constitutional court, controlled by an ally of Gbagbo, said that since the electoral commission missed its Wednesday deadline for announcing the results it did not have the right to proclaim a winner.
The delay raised tensions, and four of Ouattara's supporters were shot dead by the army on Wednesday evening - the latest in a serious of deadly election-related incidents.
The poll was aimed at putting to bed the ghost of the 2002 civil war that split the mainly Muslim north and largely Christian south, but has instead highlighted the divisions as the north overwhelmingly backed Ouattara.
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