COTONOU, Benin, Jan 9 (NNN-IRIN) – The people of Benin went to vote in the legislative elections yesterday.
At 7.00 a.m., local time, the vote began, under the supervision of observers from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and representatives of seven contesting political parties in the country.
Beninese President, Patrice Talon, said yesterday that, he was satisfied with the entire electoral process for the legislative ballot.
“The process is going well, I believe that we are definitively turning the bad pages of the political history of our country,” he said, after voting at a primary school in Cotonou, the largest city in Benin.
Around 6.6 million Beninese voted at the 17,749 polling stations across the country, to elect 109 deputies from 1,526 candidates, representing the seven contesting political parties.
