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following section is consisted of part, full or summaries of
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12
/ 16 / 2002
IRIN
The
Article: "First municipal elections since return
to multiparty rule"
Voters
in Benin went to the polls on Sunday in the country's first municipal
elections since the end of one-party rule in 1990. Some three
million people were eligible to elect their mayors and
municipal councillors, previously designated by the government.
The
otherwise calm election was marred by disturbances in Cotonou's
Douzieme Arrondissement (12th ward), stronghold of ex-president
Nicephore Soglo, who ran for mayor of Coronou against former trade
minister Severin Adjovi. Adjovi was President Matthieu Kerekou's
campaign director at the last presidential election.
Voting
was cancelled in some parts of the Douzieme Arrondissement and
did not take place in others because voting material either arrived
late or was not supplied, sparking angry reactions from would-be
voters. The chairman of the Autonomous National Election Commission
(CENA), Soule Agbetou, was stoned by a crowd at one of the polling
stations and had to
be rescued by police.
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