{"id":332202,"date":"2011-03-23T14:09:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/23\/benin-yayi-boni-wins-another-five-year-term\/"},"modified":"2011-03-23T14:09:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:09:38","slug":"benin-yayi-boni-wins-another-five-year-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/23\/benin-yayi-boni-wins-another-five-year-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin: Yayi Boni Wins Another Five-Year Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"54.4954441913\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/9c3e48a3llafrica180.jpg\" alt=\"allAfrica.com\" title=\"Visit allAfrica.com\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>23 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Benin\u2019s Constitutional Council this week declared President Boni Yayi as the winner of the March 13 presidential elections in Benin, but his principal challenger is contesting the result, <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.allafrica.com\/stories\/201103212011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports Fasozine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The council said Yayi won 53 percent of the vote in the first round, while his closest rival, Adrien Houngb\u00e9dji could manage only 36 percent, giving the incumbent a first round victory.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>Responding, Houngb\u00e9dji alleged the result is fraudulent and said he plans to contest it through the court and public protest.<\/p>\n<p>The election was postponed twice as a result of irregularities in electoral lists. The candidates had demanded it be postponed for a third time to allow for adequate preparation by the electoral commission. This was turned down.<\/p>\n<p>Houngb\u00e9dji\u2019s rejection of the result is in contrast to his reaction in 2006, when he accepted defeat in the second round of presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fr.allafrica.com\/stories\/201103220177.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radio France Internationale reports<\/a> that he repudiated the outcome as \u201cnull and void\u201d and of no consequence. He is calling on B\u00e9ninois to put up a fight against what he terms &#8220;the systematic violation of democracy&#8221; in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is the winner of the election and has called on his partners and other political forces to join him and make their voices heard.<\/p>\n<p>Marcel de Souza, a spokesman for the incumbent president, acknowledged Houngb\u00e9dji\u2019s\u00a0 right to contest the results but insisted he had to do this through the right channels and to produce evidence backing his claim. De Souza deplored Houngb\u00e9dji\u2019s declaration of himself as the winner as \u201cridiculous\u201d and irresponsible.<\/p>\n<p>If appeals are filed, the Constitutional Court is expected to decide on the final result by next week.<\/p>\n<p><em>Adapted and translated by Michael Tantoh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103230857.html\" title=\"Benin: Yayi Boni Wins Another Five-Year Term\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Benin: Yayi Boni Wins Another Five-Year Term<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 23 March 2011 Benin\u2019s Constitutional Council this week declared President Boni Yayi as the winner of the March 13 presidential elections in Benin, but his principal challenger is contesting the result, reports Fasozine . The council said Yayi won 53 percent of the vote in the first round, while his closest rival, Adrien Houngb\u00e9dji could manage only 36 percent, giving the incumbent a first round victory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Benin: Yayi Boni Wins Another Five-Year Term - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/23\/benin-yayi-boni-wins-another-five-year-term\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Benin: Yayi Boni Wins Another Five-Year Term - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"23 March 2011 Benin\u2019s Constitutional Council this week declared President Boni Yayi as the winner of the March 13 presidential elections in Benin, but his principal challenger is contesting the result, reports Fasozine . 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