Q&A: Ivory Coast parliamentary elections

Published December 8, 2011 by BBC
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Voters in Ivory Coast go to the polls on Sunday in their first parliamentary election since 2000, when former President Laurent Gbagbo came to power with his Ivorian Popular Front (FPI). It is only a few months since the violence caused by Mr Gbagbo's refusal to accept that he had lost the presidential elections died down and Alassane Ouattara took office as the new leader.

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