ISS Today: Benin tests the limits of democracy By ISS Today issafrica
live ammunition at protesters. The material damage incurred during rioting and arson is yet to be tallied.
Of the seven applications finally submitted to the National Independent Electoral Commission , only those of two coalitions – the Progressive Union and the Republican Bloc, both of which support President Patrice Talon – were authorised by the CENA to take part. Attempts to resolve the crisis through consensus between the president and some opposition figures on the one hand, and the parliamentary majority and minority on the other failed. So a few days before the poll, opposition parties asked their supporters to boycott the polls.
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