{"id":20867,"date":"2015-10-28T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ivory-coast-election-alassane-ouattara-wins\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T01:56:39","slug":"ivory-coast-election-alassane-ouattara-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ivory-coast-election-alassane-ouattara-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast election: Alassane Ouattara wins second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8777 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/watala.jpg\" alt=\"Alassane Ouattara&#039;s campaign centred around building a strong economy \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{ {{Ivory Coast&#8217;s President Alassane Ouattara has won a second five-year term with nearly 84% of the vote, electoral commission officials say.<br \/>\n}} }<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ouattara won a total of 2,118,229 votes, or 83.66% of votes cast, the commission said. Turnout was 54.63%.<\/p>\n<p>Several opposition candidates pulled out of the campaign, complaining that it was not free and fair.<\/p>\n<p>The last vote in 2010 was bitterly contested and resulted in a civil war in which 3,000 people lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ouattara required more than 50% of the vote to avoid a run-off. His closest opposition rival, Pascal Affi N&#8217;Guessan, got just 9%. <\/p>\n<p>In the 2010 vote Mr Ouattara defeated then-President Laurent Gbagbo, whose refusal to step down triggered months of violence in which thousands of people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ouattara&#8217;s campaign this year centred around his economic programme. Critics accused him of failing to foster reconciliation or reduce poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The 54% turnout was down from the 2010 first-round turnout of about 80%. <\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{ {{Ivory Coast&#8217;s President Alassane Ouattara has won a second five-year term with nearly 84% of the vote, electoral commission officials say.<br \/>\n}} }<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000069869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-20867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000069869,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20867.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20867.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20867.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20867.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20867.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton20867.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000069869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20867"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=20867"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=20867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}