World IN BRIEF : IVORY COAST : President’s Party Wins Big Majority
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
President Felix Houphouet-Boigny’s party won an overwhelming majority in Parliament in multi-party voting that ended 30 years of uncontested elections, the Interior Ministry said. The governing Democratic Party of the Ivory Coast won 163 seats in the 175-member assembly, while the Ivorian Popular Front, the main opposition party, won nine of 10 seats captured by government opponents. One of those seats went to Laurent Gbagbo, who unsuccessfully challenged Houphouet-Boigny in an earlier presidential election.
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