{"id":213144,"date":"2025-11-10T13:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cote-divoires-presidential-election-entrenches-democratic-fragility\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:27:17","slug":"cote-divoire-cote-divoires-presidential-election-entrenches-democratic-fragility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cote-divoires-presidential-election-entrenches-democratic-fragility\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s Presidential Election Entrenches Democratic Fragility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Ouattara&#8217;s fourth term landslide win reflects the ongoing struggle to achieve inclusive and trusted democratic governance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Only half of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s electorate officially voted in the 25 October polls that returned President Alassane Ouattara to power. It was confirmed on 4 November that Ouattara won a fourth term with 89.77% of the votes, far ahead of his four opponents, who together received only 8.63%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The low voter turnout (50.10%) reflects the climate of fear and political tension&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511100002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ouattara&#8217;s fourth term landslide win reflects the ongoing struggle to achieve inclusive and trusted democratic governance. Only half of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s electorate officially voted in the 25 October polls that returned President Alassane Ouattara to power. It was confirmed on 4 November that Ouattara won a fourth term with 89.77% of the votes, far ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,6404,10578,3119,38255,23068,1218,257,6438,254],"class_list":["post-213144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-democratic","tag-divoires","tag-election","tag-entrenches","tag-fragility","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}