Cote d’Ivoire’s political crisis deepens with the appointment of two prime ministers by the two presidential candidates declared the winner of the Nov. 28 run-off respectively by the electoral commission and the Constitutional Council.Both rivals, Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo, were sworn in as the president of the West African country on Sunday.After tendering resignation to Ouattara, Guillaume Soro was renamed prime minister to form a government of 13 members in repudiation with Gbagbo.Soro, the leader of the ex-rebel New Forces (FN), had previously served as the head of government under Gbagbo in accordance with a peace accord signed in March 2007.Now under Ouattara, Soro’s government timberland boots sale is mostly made up of people from the Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP), a coalition of opposition parties.
The position of defense minister was given to Soro, whose FN has been in control of the northern half of the country since September 2002.On Sunday night, Gbagbo decided to name a university don Ake Gilbert Marie N’gbo as his prime minister.The parallel appointments were made while former South African president Thambo Mbeki was in Abidjan to resolve the crisis on behalf of the African Union (AU).Cote d’Ivoire has been in a political impasse since the decision by the Constitutional Council to declare Gbagbo as the winner discount timberland boots of the presidential run-off, invalidating the results of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), which had given victory to Ouattara.Ouattara has the support of the international community while Gbagbo has the army support and is in charge of state apparatus.
The Nov. 28 vote had been expected to end the eight-year political crisis that cut the country in two in September 2002, timberland boots but it resulted in two presidents and two governments marking a deepening division with uncertainties lying ahead. 28, Ouattara was declared winner by the electoral commission while the Constitutional Council, which has the final say on the results, said Gbagbo won the vote. Gbagbo did not heed the international request and stayed on power, leading to a political standoff and the West African country was put at the real risk of a civil war.Cote d’Ivoire was divided after the country’s 2002-2003 civil war. 7, 2010 and recognized Ouattara as the winner of the country’s presidential run-off.After the run-off held on Nov.