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Election timetable announced

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    The first round of presidential elections are to be held in Cote d’Ivoire on 17 September, according to a timetable announced on Friday by the Comite national de Salut public (CNSP), the military council that took over power when then President Henri Konan Bedie was overthrown on 24 December. The second round is to be held on 8 October, legislative elections are to follow on 29 October and municipal polls on 19 November, the CNSP said in a communique.The elections will be preceded on 23 July by a referendum on a new draft constitution.

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