''We demand the (commission) to decide very quickly about a new date for the pre sidential election, a date that should not exceed three months. We will no longer accept a date that goes beyond that period,'' said the leader of the Young Patriots, Charles Ble Goude. ''We do not want the s uffering of the Ivorians to continue,''
Goude, who was addressing a youth rally Sunday, said his compatriots were ''tire d of the several postponements of the presidential election''.
He accused the president of the commission, Robert Mambe, of being biased in fav our of the oppostition Rally of the Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP). Goude is the campaign director of President Laurent Gbagbo.
On their part, some members of the Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire (PDCI) on Sunday demonstrated in Abidjan to ask President Gbagbo and the CEI to set, ''as soon as reasonably practicable', a new ultimate date for the presidential election.
The PDCI invites all the other opposition parties and all Ivorians to join in pr otesting the delay in holding the election by beating saucepans, hooting the horns and whistling for 10 minutes every day ten minutes.
And in a statement issued in Abidjan, the Convention of the Civil Society (CSCI) demanded the immediate announcement of a definite date for the election.
The latest postponement of the polls was due to delays in the identification and data processing.
The permanent consultative committee will meet Thursday in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to announce the new date for Cote d'Ivoire's election.
Cote d'Ivoire was thrown into crisis in 2002, when a failed coupled to the division of the country, with the south remaining under government control and the north falling into rebel hands.
Abidjan - Pana 30/11/2009
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