(IVORY COAST): »POWER AND LEGITIMACY AT STAKE FOR NEXT ELECTIONS »?

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THE CURRENT IVORIAN HEAD OF STATE « ALLASSANE OUATTARA » OF « IVORY COAST » SEEMS TO BE STUBBORN BY STANDING FOR NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS(IN OCTOBER) AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE AND TO SOME EXTENT VERSUS THE CONSTITUTION FUNDAMENTALLY!

– IN THE SAME TREND, WE OUGHT TO DEAL WITH POLITICS AS A DEMOCRATIC GAME IN THE WHOLE OF AFRICA THAT CAN BE AT THE SAME TIME BLOODY TO SOME EXTENT: BUT AS FAR AS AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST « TALCOTTS PARSONS » IS CONCERNED, HE REGARDED POLITICAL POWER AS THE CAPACITY OF A GOVERNMENT TO DRAW ON THE COMMITMENTS OF ITS CITIZENS, SO AS TO ACHIEVE COLLECTIVE GOALS, SUCH AS LAW AND ORDER, PROTECTING FROM  ATTACK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH!MOREOVER, THAT MEANS BASICALLY, THE MORE POWERFUL THE GOVERNMENT, THE MORE EFFECTIVE IT WOULD BE AT ACHIEVING THE GOALS OF THE COMMUNITY! IS IT THE CURRENT CASE IN THE IVORY COASY NOW?THAT’S THE QUESTION!

-AS A MATTER OF FACT, INCREASINGLY IVORIAN HEAD OF STATE « ALLASSANE OUATTARA » SEEMS TO  BECOME A TRAGIC FIGURE, WHEN  FAILING TO  BRING THE IVORIAN CITIZENS TOGETHER AS ONE,  TO ACHIEVE PEACE AND TRUE RECONCILIATION DURING HIS FIRST RUN!IN ADDITION TO THAT SAD REALITY, CORRUPTION , , ETHNIC CLEANSING AND NEPOTISM HAVE ALSO BECOME AN EMBARRASMENT TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, MAINLY FROM FRANCE, HIS SO CALLED  GODFATHER!

-IS THE IVORY COAST ON AN EVENTUAL  POWER SHARING’S ROAD GROUNDED IN A POLITICAL TRANSITION IN THE MONTHS TO COME?

-NO ONE CAN PREDICT IT BUT  WE CAN NOT PREVENT TRUE DEMOCRACY FROM BEING A REALTY IN A COUNTRY,THAT HAS ALREADY EXPERIENCED A BLOODY TURMOIL FROM NOVEMBER 2010 TO APRIL 2011!

(TIME WILL REALLY TELL)!

 

(YVES T BOUAZO)(CHIEF AND MANAGING EDITOR)(« IMAGE »:OUATTARA AND KAFANDO)