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Monday 27 Apr 2015 - 13:50 Makkah mean time-8-7-1436
Benin's President Yayi (AFP image)
Cotonou (IINA) – Benin’s President Thomas Boni Yayi has announced that he will not run for a third term, after the opposition accused him of planning to try to cling to power after his second term ends next year.
"I am not a candidate in this election and I am no longer a candidate for anything," Boni Yayi told reporters after casting his ballot in legislative elections in Benin's commercial capital Cotonou on Sunday.
Benin voted Sunday in legislative elections, where about 4.4 million voters were eligible to cast their ballots to pick 83 lawmakers, after the expiry of the seventh four-year-term legislative mandate since the adoption of the country's constitution in December 1990.
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