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Former President Dacko to stand for presidency

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    The founder of the Movement for Democracy and Development, former president David Dacko, has added his name to the list of candidates to contest the presidential election, scheduled in two rounds for August and September, Radio France Internationale reported on Monday. Dacko, who was president from 1960 to 1965 and again from 1979 to 1981, said the country had deteriorated so much, and there was such a chasm between the affluent and the poor that he wanted to "put some order into state affairs".

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