Three months before local elections in Côte d’Ivoire, President Alassane Ouattara has just appointed on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 by decree three new constitutional advisers, for a period of six years.
With our correspondent in Abidjan, Marine Jeannin.
It is first of all the magistrate Aimée Zebeyoux, former Secretary of State in charge of Human Rights in the previous RHDP government.
The other newcomers are the famous public prosecutor, Richard Adou and Sébastien Yédoh Lath, teacher-researcher in public law. The two men are close to the lawyer Ouraga Obou, former companion of Laurent Gbagbo, who became a defector from the RHDP. It was to Ouraga Obou that Alassane Ouattara had entrusted, in 2016, the presidency of the committee of experts responsible for drafting the new Constitution.
During an election period, the Constitutional Council has three main responsibilities: to ratify potential constitutional reforms, to validate the candidacies, and finally to validate the results of the ballot. The three new councilors will officially take office in July 2023. As well as Chantal Camara, the current president of the Court of Cassation, close to Alassane Ouattara, who will head the Constitutional Council. She was appointed to this position on May 9.
All are appointed for a period of six years, that is to say a period which will cover the local elections in September, but also the presidential election of 2025.
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