Ivory Coast's Ouattara enacts new constitution as 'promise of peace'

La Cote d'Ivoire's Third Republic has come into being with the signing into law of a new constitution overwhelmingly adopted last month in a referendum boycotted by opposition parties.

President Alassane Ouattara said in an address to the nation after signing the document at his Abidjan offices, that the wind of democracy is blowing again in the country.
The new constitution will serve as a social contract for numerous generations.
 
President Ouattara pledged to accelerate reforms for the good of the Ivorian people.

On October 30, more than 93 percent of voters approved the new basic law. Turnout was 42 percent.

The opposition, which had derided the new constitution as undemocratic and as designed to allow Ouattara to hand-pick his successor, said "massive fraud" had taken place during the referendum and that its results were "fake". 

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