Elections in Côte d'Ivoire The CEI Releases the Provisional Voter List for 2024-2025 with 8,761,348 Voters

On Monday, March 17, 2025, the President of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), Coulibaly-Kuibiert Ibrahime, presented the 2024-2025 provisional voter list, which includes 8,761,348 voters—4,528,554 men and 4,232,794 women—on a USB key to political parties, political groups, and civil society organizations. The presentation took place at the institution's headquarters in Cocody, Deux-Plateaux.

After this step, the provisional voter list will be displayed from March 17 to March 21, 2025, at all polling stations across the country. It will also be available on the CEI website: www.cei.ci  and can be accessed by dialing #919#.

The display of the provisional voter list allows any voter or CEI member to verify the list and file a complaint with the CEI if necessary. This process also helps prepare a more accurate and credible final voter list, which contributes to the strengthening of the electoral process's reliability and transparency. Therefore, consultation of the provisional voter list may lead to complaints that could result in a legal dispute, which will be handled according to the electoral code.

Disputes may concern the registration of omitted individuals, the correction of errors and irregularities in personal details, the removal of deceased individuals, those who have lost their voting rights, those incorrectly registered, or those whose removal has been ordered by the competent authority.

The complaints phase will run from March 22 to April 5, 2025, at the local Electoral Commission (CEL) offices with all necessary supporting documents (originals and copies).

“We are not the adversary of anyone”

Coulibaly-Kuibiert Ibrahime assured of the CEI's commitment to maintaining transparency and impartiality. "We are and remain the independent referee of the political game. We are not affiliated with any political group. We are the adversary of no one. Our role is to apply the rules laid out by the Constitution and the laws of the Republic. We wish to remain in this role to continue strengthening the foundations of our young democracy," he stated.

He also made this clarification: "In this regard, the brave men and women who work daily at the CEI do not deserve all the invectives, insults, outrages, and suspicions they are regularly subjected to. That is why, from this platform, I would like to call on political parties and civil society to show restraint and work with us as carriers of peace and social cohesion."

Commenting on the demands from political parties for a new revision of the voter list, the CEI president responded to these political actors that the commission’s schedule does not allow for a new voter list revision before the 2025 presidential election.

Several political parties, political groups, and civil society organizations were present at the ceremony.