Drama in Benin's upcoming presidential election UPDATED
Her Spirit may be Rising, but she doesn't seem to be Running Following the three elections coming up this October, there will be two presidential elections in ECOWAS countries at the beginning of 2016: Niger, where first-term President Issoufou is eligible to run again in January, and Benin in February. There's been some interesting drama regarding the Benin race so let's take a look. President Yayi Boni is finishing up his second term, so it's an open race. There was speculation that President Yayi wanted to amend the constitution to enable a third term, but his party did poorly in the parliamentary election in May , so that option was shut out. The most famous Beninois in the United States is surely Angelique Kidjo , and there was hope among some last year that she would run, but their Facebook page hasn't been updated in ten months so I don't think that's happening. Bummer. The recent drama among actual candidates circles arou...
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