Ivory Coast Vote Result Is Reversed

Source: Associated Press

Filed at 1:34 p.m. EST

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast's political crisis deepened Friday as the constitutional council declared incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo the winner of the disputed election, reversing the outcome backed by independent observers and raising fears of violence.

The new results released on national television by a Gbagbo loyalist came as foreign TV and radio were taken off the air, blocking the earlier results that had been issued Thursday by the country's election czar.

Those results — which were considered credible by the African Union, the United Nations and the White House — gave opposition leader Alassane Ouattara 54.1 percent of the vote, compared to 45.9 percent for Gbagbo.

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and reversed the results with a landslide....5-4.