Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara was expected to step down in 2020 but unexpectedly declared in 2018 that the new constitution had reset term limits that would have barred him from running again.
A rise in tensions in recent weeks between Ouattara and his political rivals has raised fears of election-related violence in Francophone West Africa’s largest economy, where a disputed 2010 vote set off a civil war that killed 3,000 people. He did, however, seek to downplay opponents’ fears that he would try to impose age limits on presidential candidates that would prevent his main rivals, former presidents Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bedie, from running.Modifying the constitution requires approval in parliament, which is controlled by Ouattara’s allies.
Some opposition leaders have speculated that Ouattara, who is 78, will re-impose the 75-year age limit for presidential candidates that were removed in a new constitution he championed in 2016.Ouattara was expected to step down in 2020 but unexpectedly declared in 2018 that the new constitution had reset term limits that would have barred him from running again.
Africans must stop this cancer now. Why are constitutions changed to suit individuals at every time someone comes to power? Bad.
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