Two more political parties have urged their supporters to vote "yes" at a referendum on 23 July on a draft constitution which, if approved, will disqualify any presidential candidate who has held a foreign nationality. Under the draft, all candidates and their parents must be Ivorian.
At the weekend, the Front populaire Ivorien of Laurent Gbagbo and the former ruling Parti democratique de Cote d'Ivoire appealed to their constituents to support the draft. The Rassemblement des Republicains was one of the first to call for a "yes" vote even though critics of its leader, former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara, claim that he is Burkinabe.
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