o:id
	5296
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/5296
o:resource_template
	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	Jihadist Violence Grows in Benin
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25140
dcterms:date
	2023-02-09
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119472045 Q119472045
	iwac-reference-0000154
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	On January 8, voters in Benin went to the polls to select the new Parliament. The overall turnout was not particularly high at 38.66 percent, but it was still higher than the last parliamentary election held in 2019, where only 23 percent of the country voted. This number was low in part due to opposition parties boycotting the election. Four out of the seven parties that ran for this most recent election failed to clear the national 10 percent threshold. The two parties linked to President Patrice Talon, the Progressive Union for Renewal (Union Progressiste pour le Renouveau, or UPR) and the Republican Bloc (Bloc Républicain, or BR) obtained 37 percent and 29 percent of the vote, respectively. The main opposition party, the Democrats (Les Démocrates), whose current honorary president is Thomas Boni Yayi—Benin’s president from 2006 to 2016—entered the parliament with 24 percent of the vote. Out of 109 seats, the movement behind the incumbent president obtained 81 seats, in contrast with the opposition’s 28 (ORTB, January 12).
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	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/283
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1679
bibo:issue
	3
bibo:volume
	21

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