Mac Manu leads delegation to Cote d’Ivoire elections

A Former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Peter Mac Manu, has left for Cote d'Ivoire as an international observer of the upcoming presidential election in that country slated for Sunday, October 25, 2015.

Mr Manu, who is also an honorary Chairman of Democratic Union of Africa (DUA) and Vice Chairman of International Democratic Union (IDU), will lead the DUA delegation.

This will be the first presidential election in that country after the bloody post-election violence of 2010.

President Alhassan Ouatarra will stand for re-election against 10 candidates, including two women. Six of the candidates are independent and four are being sponsored by political parties.

Cote d'Ivoire’s economy has seen positive improvements and the security situation has largely improved.

The polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. Ivorians aged 18 and above, with national identity and voters card, are eligible to vote.

The provisional electoral list contains 6,300,158 voters falling under 22,000 polling stations.