In Benin, the Autonomous National Electoral Commission (Céna) has just given the provisional results of the legislative elections of Sunday, January 8. At stake, the 109 seats of deputies in the Assembly. According to the figures disclosed by the Commission, the presidential movement retains its majority in Parliament, but the opposition is making a comeback.
With our special correspondent in Cotonou, Magali Lagrange
Three parties will have elected members in the new National Assembly on the seven who were in the running. For the presidential movement, the two parties which controlled the outgoing National Assembly, the Progressive Union, Renewal (UPR) and the Republican Bloc (BR), for the opposition The Democrats, the party of former President Thomas Boni Yayi. According to the figures read by the Céna in the middle of the day, the Progressive Union for Renewal (UPR) comes first in the votes cast and obtains 53 seats.
In second position, the Republican Bloc (BR) won 28 seats. The Democrats party also won 28 seats out of a total of 109 deputies, according to these provisional figures. But four other parties in competition failed to exceed the threshold of 10% of the votes cast, and did not win any seats. According to the latest data, the participation rate is rather low with less than 40% at the national level, the final results will be announced by the Constitutional Court.
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