Cotonou. .- Benin today held the first round of presidential elections, with many problems of organization, especially in the census, which complicated the process to elect a new head of state from among the fourteen candidates standing. The voting, which was scheduled to begin at seven o'clock (0600 GMT) was delayed at least an hour in most of the 13,152 polling stations throughout the country, responsible for the absence of tables and especially the lack of material that should have distributed the Army.
In any case, until four in the afternoon when the tables to be closed, voting took place calmly and without incident highlights, although they were numerous cases of people whose names were not on the electoral roll, according to Efe was able to observe in several schools in Cotonou. Long lines of voters waiting from early to cast their vote in Cotonou, the seat of government and economic capital.
"It develops slowly and, apart from the one-hour delay in opening much of the polling stations due to late arrival of electoral materials, we have no problem," he told Efe Djidja Saka, a polling officer in the school district of Fidjrossé, in Cotonou. For the head of the Electoral Observation Mission of the African Union, Nagoum Yamassoun, voting "went well." "We have seen a large share of the population, with great enthusiasm and desire to vote," he said.
"On the organizational issue, the Autonomous National Electoral Commission (CENA) seems to have been exceeded and some schools have started late," said Yamassoun. Benin has accredited around 1,886 election observers to these elections, belonging to 217 institutions and organizations and African.
After casting his ballot, President Yayi Boni, apologized for the problems, especially in the absence of a census of many citizens, prompting opposition groups to seek a further postponement of the elections, already delayed twice. "Certainly there have been mistakes and, therefore, on behalf of the Nation, I apologize to those who have not been (in the census)," said Yayi, who is for re-election for a second and final term.
Yayi's main rival, Adrien Houngbedji, the candidate of a coalition of opposition parties called the National Union, voted in Porto Novo, Benin's administrative capital, and called upon citizens to support it "massive." "It is time the people's victory over those who prevent the people exercise their right to vote and I urge those who can vote do so to punish the regime," he said after casting his vote Houngbédji.
The other potential candidate, who as Yayi is a former senior banking institutions and corporations, Abdoulaye Bio Tchané, voted in the early hours of the morning in the neighborhood of Villa Djougou, in the northern suburbs of Cotonou. Yayi, Houngbédji and Tchané, as local commentators, are the top three qualified candidates and two of them will play, if the forecasts, the second round.
Early election results are expected on Wednesday or Thursday of next week and then, the Constitutional Court announced the provisional results, before admitting any funds of the candidates and announce the final of the first round. If none of the fourteen aspiring head of state gets an absolute majority, with more than 50 percent of the vote, there will be a second between the two candidates with the most support. 
In any case, until four in the afternoon when the tables to be closed, voting took place calmly and without incident highlights, although they were numerous cases of people whose names were not on the electoral roll, according to Efe was able to observe in several schools in Cotonou. Long lines of voters waiting from early to cast their vote in Cotonou, the seat of government and economic capital.
"It develops slowly and, apart from the one-hour delay in opening much of the polling stations due to late arrival of electoral materials, we have no problem," he told Efe Djidja Saka, a polling officer in the school district of Fidjrossé, in Cotonou. For the head of the Electoral Observation Mission of the African Union, Nagoum Yamassoun, voting "went well." "We have seen a large share of the population, with great enthusiasm and desire to vote," he said.
"On the organizational issue, the Autonomous National Electoral Commission (CENA) seems to have been exceeded and some schools have started late," said Yamassoun. Benin has accredited around 1,886 election observers to these elections, belonging to 217 institutions and organizations and African.
After casting his ballot, President Yayi Boni, apologized for the problems, especially in the absence of a census of many citizens, prompting opposition groups to seek a further postponement of the elections, already delayed twice. "Certainly there have been mistakes and, therefore, on behalf of the Nation, I apologize to those who have not been (in the census)," said Yayi, who is for re-election for a second and final term.
Yayi's main rival, Adrien Houngbedji, the candidate of a coalition of opposition parties called the National Union, voted in Porto Novo, Benin's administrative capital, and called upon citizens to support it "massive." "It is time the people's victory over those who prevent the people exercise their right to vote and I urge those who can vote do so to punish the regime," he said after casting his vote Houngbédji.
The other potential candidate, who as Yayi is a former senior banking institutions and corporations, Abdoulaye Bio Tchané, voted in the early hours of the morning in the neighborhood of Villa Djougou, in the northern suburbs of Cotonou. Yayi, Houngbédji and Tchané, as local commentators, are the top three qualified candidates and two of them will play, if the forecasts, the second round.
Early election results are expected on Wednesday or Thursday of next week and then, the Constitutional Court announced the provisional results, before admitting any funds of the candidates and announce the final of the first round. If none of the fourteen aspiring head of state gets an absolute majority, with more than 50 percent of the vote, there will be a second between the two candidates with the most support.
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