YAMOUSSOUKRO, Cote D’Ivoire
Cote D’Ivoire’s ruling party won 58% of seats in parliamentary elections, results showed on Sunday, strengthening President Alassane Ouattara’s hand to pursue his political agenda.
Quattara’s allies faced a combined challenge from opposition parties led by two of his predecessors, Henri Konan Bedie and Laurent Gbagbo, but they failed to mount a sufficient challenge.
Quattara’s Rally of HouphouĂ«tists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) party took 147 of 255 seats.
The poll comes only months after Ouattara won a third term in an election marred by unrest that killed at least 85 people, the country’s worst violence since a 2010-2011 civil war.
Ouattara now aims to pursue an agenda based on attracting investment to the world’s top cocoa producer.
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