IVORY COAST: Pro-Gbagbo electoral commission agent screws up and walks off with a sheaf of Ivory Coast election results
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IVORY COAST: Pro-Gbagbo electoral commission agent screws up and walks off with a sheaf of Ivory Coast election results
- Title: IVORY COAST: Pro-Gbagbo electoral commission agent screws up and walks off with a sheaf of Ivory Coast election results
- Date: 26th November 2010
- Summary: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST (NOVEMBER 30, 2010) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ATTEMPT BY INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSION (CEI) SPOKESMAN YACOUBA BAMBA TO ANNOUNCE RESULTS, BEING STOPPED BY TWO PRO-GBAGBO MEMBERS OF THE CEI, WHO RIPPED OFF THE RESULTS PAPERS OUT OF HIS HAND BAMBA SURROUNDED BY JOURNALISTS (SOUNDBITE) (French) YACOUBA BAMBA, INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION SPOKESMAN, SAYING: "This was concerning the fact that I was coming to give the results for the region of Agneby and Moyenne Comoe, these are results that I was coming to give and you saw for yourselves that the agents have ripped off the results. These results have definitely been confirmed by the CEI." MORE OF JOURNALISTS SURROUNDING BAMBA
- Embargoed: 11th December 2010 12:00
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- Location: Cote d'Ivoire
- Country: Ivory Coast
- Topics: Domestic Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA726IERKDL2LHSHS6CI27QE5V7
- Story Text: Ivory Coast's opposition accused President Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday (November 30) of blocking the release of first results of a tense election because he knew he had lost.
The first main batch of results from Sunday's run-off were due on Tuesday, but the figures did not emerge and a news conference in the evening to start announcing them ended when pro-Gbagbo members of the election commission tore up results as they were being read out.
The two pro-Gbagbo Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) agents were claiming the results couldn't be announced as they hadn't been confirmed by the electoral body.
"I was coming to give the results for the region of Agneby and Moyenne Comoe, these are results that I was coming to give and you saw for yourselves that the agents have ripped off the results. These results have definitely confirmed by the CEI," said Yacouba Bamba, CEI spokesman.
The election body has until Wednesday to announce a winner.
Gbagbo's party said it would formally challenge the results in the rebel-held north, where his rival Alassane Ouattara did well in the first round, because of alleged intimidation by rebel New Forces soldiers against Gbagbo's supporters.
Sunday's vote was meant to end the process of reunifying the world's top cocoa grower, divided since a 2002-2003 civil war, but it has underlined the north-south divisions that caused it. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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