Runoff won Alassane Ouattara opposition candidate Côte d'Ivoire presidential elections, the country's Electoral Commission said late on Thursday, after a tense delay triggered violence in the West African nation.
Election Commission head, Youssouf Bakayoko Mr Ouattara won 54.1% in the world's largest cocoa producers said while current President Laurent Gbagbo 45.9% won, reported the associated press. After the announcement rushed to celebrate supporters of Mr Ouattara in several Abidjan neighborhoods in the streets.
But the announcement came one day after the constitutional deadline and specified the President allies would challenge the results. Including the rejection of the vote of the head was the Constitutional Council who Thursday declared on State television, the results were invalid.
The declared winner, meanwhile appealed for the President to step down.
"I ask my brother Laurent Gbagbo, our commitment to the results that respect proclaimed by the Independent Electoral Commission to remember," Mr Ouattara said late on Thursday. "We all have with all the political leaders to ensure responsible for cohesion and peace of our country."
Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer of cocoa, but its economy has plagued by instability have been. A brutal five year war that ended in 2007 left thousands dead. The presidential runoff election on Sunday this simmering political and ethnic tensions surfaced.
Mr. Gbagbo, from the South, accused refused Northern rebels of rigging the vote in certain districts and the unpublished results. Mr Ouattara, a Muslim from the northern part of the country, accused Mr Gbagbo of the publication of voting results stalling, because he knew that he had lost.
Mr Ouattara was the Prime Minister in the 1990s and is a former IMF of Deputy Managing Director. Mr. Gbagbo has since 2000 in power and had delayed the presidential elections on numerous occasions since its five year mandate ended in 2005.
The country of the first democratic elections in more than a decade, and international observers as the vote especially credible marked the second round.
But on Tuesday, a Pro Gbagbo Electoral Commission member crack up voting results before the reporter, before could be advertised, speak they were fraudulent.
Killed on Wednesday night armed men at least four opposition supporters if you a District Office of Mr of Ouattara's opposition party in Abidjan, attacked according to eye witnesses. Eyewitness said men of office walls scaled before opening fire on opposition supporters.
Despite the announcement on Thursday by the Electoral Commission, the results surrounded the uncertainty. The Constitutional Council in Côte d'Ivoire said alone the presidential election results could share results announce after the Electoral Commission has failed, a time limit.
"The Constitutional Council - responsible for sort out disputes in presidential election - can be found in free to find a solution to the dispute and announce the final election results," Paul Yao said N'Dre, head of the Constitutional Council and Gbagbo supporters.
Asked the United States and the United Nations France results be released immediately. Army troops and UN peacekeepers have streets of Abidjan capital since Sunday Bosniaks.
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