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Ivory Coast
Index
As the Ivoirian bureaucracy assumed a more prominent
position
in the postindependence years, the PDCI withered steadily.
Increasingly it became a sinecure for the old guard, who
lacked the
ability to hold government office but remained personally
loyal to
the president. Also, by the early 1970s the one-party
political
structure was based on a purely ethnic system of
representation at
the local level that lacked any democratic procedures and
that had
produced an economically privileged political class.
Moreover, the
party and government hierarchies were characterized by
nepotism and
corruption. And finally, the poorly defined and
overlapping
responsibilities of party officials caused infighting and
political
rivalry.
In the late 1970s, Houphouët-Boigny, faced with growing
party
disarray, began to decentralize the PDCI at the local
level, where
a substantial change in party leadership took place. For
the first
time, the local party secretary generals, previously
elected as
part of a slate, were now to be chosen in open elections.
Data as of November 1988
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