IVORY COAST: PRESIDENT HENRI KONAN BEDIE LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Record ID: 183404

  • Title: IVORY COAST: PRESIDENT HENRI KONAN BEDIE LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
  • Date: 8th October 1995
  • Summary: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST (OCTOBER 8, 1995) (REUTERS TELEVISION - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV CROWD GATHERING AT FELIX HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY STADIUM IN ABIDJAN 0.04 2. SV SUPPORTERS OF IVORY COAST'S PRESIDENT HENRI KONAN BEDIE CHEERING, WAVING FLAGS AND PLACARDS (2 SHOTS) 0.14 3. SLV TROOPS ON RUNNING TRACK 0.21 4. GV/SV IVORY COAST'S PRESIDENT HENRI KONAN BEDIE DRIVING AROUND STADIUM, WAVING TO CROWD FROM OPEN TOP CAR/ CROWD CHEERING, WAVING FLAGS (4 SHOTS) 0.59 6. HAS, GV PRESIDENT HENRI KONAN BEDIE GREETING TRADITIONAL LEADERS 1.02 7. SV/MCU SUPPORTER, BODY PAINTED WITH PDCI (INITIALS OF RULING PARTY PARTI DEMOCRATIQUE DE COTE D'IVOIRE)/ DANCING, LEADING CHEERS/SUPPORTER YELLING "HENRI KONAN BEDIE, C'EST MON PRESIDENT" (FRENCH) (3 SHOTS) 1.17 8. GV/LV TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS IN STADIUM(2 SHOTS) 1.26 9. SLV/MCU IVORY COAST PRESIDENT HENRI KONAN BEDIE LISTENING TO MUSIC (2 SHOTS) 1.41 10. MCU IVORY COAST'S PRESIDENT HENRI KONAN BEDIE APPEALING FOR PEACE, EVEN FOR ADVERSARIES WHO HAVE FLED THE VERDICT OF THE POLLS/ BEDIE CALLING FOR AN END TO VIOLENCE.SAYING GO FORTH IN REASON AND WITH WORDS AT THE SERVICE OF THOUGHT AND ACTION. GO WITHOUT YOUR KNIVES WITHOUT YOUR GUNS, DECLARE PEACE AND BROTHERLY LOVE FOR ALL EVEN FOR THOSE ADVERSARIES WHO FLEE THE JUDGEMENT OF THE POLLS (FRENCH - AUDIO AS INCOMING) 2.16 11.SV WOMAN IN CROWD APPLAUDING/GV CROWD LISTENING (2 SHOTS) 2.27 12.GV PEOPLE LEAVING STADIUM 2.33 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 23rd October 1995 12:00
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  • Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
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  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVACXLJKBD84WOIC7JRLVP1MGZJ5
  • Story Text: Ivory Coast President Henri Konan Bedie, launched his campaign for an October 22 presidential election on Sunday (October 8) with an appeal for peace after political unrest that killed at least five people last week.

    Bedie is seeking election after taking on his present position in 1993 following the death of founding president Felix Houphouet-Boigny.

    During the election rally held in the country's biggest stadium, Bedie told a crowd of up to 30,000 supporters to "go forward, without knives and without guns. Proclaim peace and love to all, even to the adversaries who have fled the verdict of the polls." Referring to nationwide protests called by opposition parties on October 2, he urged the people of the Ivory Coats to "say No to the agitators, No to those who sow division, No to the rioters." The opposition wants the government to withdraw the electoral law, which prevents former prime minister Alassane Ouattara running for president, and to set up an independent electoral commission to oversee the elections.

    It also wants a delay in the polls, saying there have been irregularities in voter registration.


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