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Monday 2 noveMber 2020
Ivorians brace for unrest, await results of tense election

By KRISTA LARSON stay home too. N'Guessan
Associated Press told reporters Sunday that
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) only about 10% of the
— Ivory Coast residents electorate had cast bal-
braced for more unrest lots, but did not provide his
Sunday as election officials source for the information.
began releasing the first The Independent Electoral
results from the country's Commission has not yet
presidential election and released nationwide voter
opponents of President Al- turnout figures.
assane Ouattara stepped In the streets of Abidjan,
up their criticism of his quest there was uncertainty Sun-
for a third term. day about what the com-
Opposition leaders who ing days would bring and
boycotted the election whether the release of
have claimed that at least even partial election results
30 people have died in could set off more unrest.
election-related violence, Moussa Doumbia, 67, said
without giving further de- residents in the Abobo
tails. They urged the in- neighborhood of Abi-
ternational community to djan wanted to avoid the
take note that Ouattara's bloody conflict of elections
mandate was finished. past.
Prominent dissident Guil- A woman sells her goods at a local market in Abobo neighborhood, suburbs of Abidjan, Ivory "We no longer want hate.
laume Soro said from exile Coast, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. Associated Press We want peace, so that
in France that he no longer what happened in 2010
considered Ouattara to be postor will fall." ter then-President Laurent with critics complaining the never happens again," he
Ivory Coast's head of state. There was no immediate Gbagbo refused to con- Ouattara administration said. While the streets in
Soro, a former prime minis- reaction from Ouattara, cede defeat to Ouattara, has failed to bring about pro-opposition neighbor-
ter and president of Ivory who was reelected five the internationally recog- national reconciliation dur- hoods were largely de-
Coast's National Assembly, years ago with nearly 84% nized winner. ing his years in power. serted Sunday, markets
was disqualified earlier this of the vote and has broad Ouattara is now seeking a Critics say Ouattara has all reopened in Ouattara
year from running in Satur- international support. third term in office, which but predetermined the out- strongholds like Abobo
day's election. Soro's comments about his his opponents consider ille- come as 40 of the 44 can- where women neatly lined
"Faced with the electoral former mentor came as gal. However, the president didates seeking to chal- up piles of fresh tilapia fish
parody in Ivory Coast, (the some Ivorians feared a pos- insists his previous two terms lenge him were disquali- to sell to shoppers trudging
GPS party) calls on the sible return to the electoral no longer count because fied, including Soro and through muddy footpaths.
Ivorian people to remove violence that had engulfed of a constitutional refer- Gbagbo. Two of his three "We are afraid of what's to
former president Alassane the country nearly a de- endum approved in 2016. remaining opponents — come," said Aicha Toure,
Ouattara from power," cade ago. The 2010 elec- Tensions over his bid for an- Pascal Affi N'Guessan and a vegetable seller, as she
Soro tweeted from exile in tion standoff led to months other term have revived old Henri Konan Bedie — boy- sliced cabbage at her stall.
France. "Ivory Coast will as- of fighting that left more wounds from the country's cotted Saturday's vote and "We don't know what's go-
sume its destiny and the im- than 3,000 people dead af- previous political standoff, asked their supporters to ing to happen."q

Mexico rebukes governor for call to

vote against Trump

they could play a decisive Democratic presidential tution," Sanchez Cordero
role in the Nov. 3 election. candidate Joe Biden — wrote. President Andrés
Aureoles posted a video on had policies that did more Manuel López Obrador ran
his social media feed Thurs- to recognize and value twice for the presidency on
day urging migrants to vote migrants. Interior Secretary the ticket of Aureoles' Dem-
against Trump. Olga Sánchez Cordero ocratic Revolution Party,
"This is a great opportunity wrote an open letter to Au- but later split from it.
to end a long night, a long reoles reminding him that López Obrador has main-
People attend a rally in support of the reelection of President dark night of racism, of ha- foreign policy was a fed- tained a surprisingly cordial
Donald Trump in the Xochimilco district of Mexico City, Sunday, tred of persecution, of inhu- eral, not a state responsibil- relationship with Trump,
Nov. 1, 2020. man insults," Aureoles said. ity. "This appears to me be considering their ideologi-
Associated Press As a candidate in 2016, a serious issue, because it cal differences, and the
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mex- oversees Mexico's domes- Trump accused Mexico of puts the Mexican govern- Mexican president drew
ico's federal Interior De- tic affairs, told Gov. Silvano sending rapists across the ment in a very delicate po- criticism in his own country
partment issued a stern Aureoles Friday that he had border. But the rhetoric this sition regarding its foreign for visiting Trump in Wash-
rebuke Friday to the gov- put Mexico "in a delicate year has been far softer, policy". "Interfering the way ington this summer.
ernor of the western state position" by interfering in and the federal govern- you did in the internal af- For decades, Mexico has
of Michoacan for posting a another country's elections. ment desperately wants to fairs of another country, in studiously avoided inter-
video urging migrants living Michoacan has sent mil- avoid having Mexico be- its elections, playing a for- fering in other countries'
in the United States to vote lions of migrants to the Unit- come an issue in this year's eign policy role that you internal affairs, in part be-
against President Donald ed States over the course of race. do not have, is equivalent cause it is highly sensitive
Trump. decades. Aureoles urged Aureoles suggested the in my opinion to a violation about any interference in
The department, which migrants to vote, saying challenger — meaning of the (Mexican) Consti- its own.q