Benin’s legislative election

Election on saturday 31 March

Benin has legislative elections on 31 March (originally scheduled for the 25th, but postponed). Benin is a presidential system (”pure” not “semi”) and is one of the few such systems to have nonconcurrent elections. It has had regular elections now for about fifteen years, making it one of the real success stories of Africa’s recent democratic wave.

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