Several officials from the main Ivorian opposition parties were summoned by police in Abidjan on Tuesday, the day after Alassane Ouattara's first-round election for a fourth term, their political parties announced.

The pre-election climate has been tense in recent weeks in Côte d'Ivoire: the opposition denounced the exclusion of its two main candidates, Laurent Gbagbo and Tidjane Thiam, and called for demonstrations that the government had banned, arguing in particular that they risked disturbing public order.

On Tuesday, the Abidjan prosecutor announced that weapons of war had been found in the possession of individuals linked to a banned march on October 11, including suspected members of the security service of Laurent Gbagbo's African People's Party - Côte d'Ivoire (PPA-CI).

On the same day, around ten PPA-CI officials were summoned to the Abidjan police headquarters for unknown reasons, according to the party.

Several officials from Mr. Thiam's Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) were also summoned the same day by the criminal police for an unknown reason, one of them told AFP.

On the day of the Ivorian presidential election, clashes broke out in several towns in the south and west.

In Nahio, in the central-west department of Issia, "a group of individuals" blocked access to the sub-prefecture to prevent voting, sparking clashes that left three dead and 19 injured, according to a new report from the Issia prosecutor on Tuesday evening.

This brings to eleven the number of people killed since mid-October on the sidelines of the electoral process, including five on election day - seven according to the opposition.

- Life goes on -

Ivorians are cautious during election periods, which have often led to crises in the country (the 2010-2011 election left around 3,000 dead, the 2020 election left 85 dead).

This weekend, the city's main streets were almost empty and some polling stations deserted, in a "foregone conclusion" of the election, according to many residents interviewed by AFP.

On Tuesday, life returned to normal in Ivory Coast, particularly in the economic capital, Abidjan.

In several neighborhoods, traffic returned to normal on Monday and businesses that had closed on Saturday, the day of the vote, reopened.

On Monday, Alassane Ouattara was re-elected for a fourth term with 89.77% of the vote, according to provisional results from the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI).

An overwhelming score, but with a turnout rate of just over 50%, which can be explained in particular by the absence of opposition figures, excluded from the vote by court decisions.

Some 8.7 million voters were called to the polls. While the north, which is in favor of the ruling party, achieved very high turnout rates, the southern and western areas, where the opposition is historically strong, particularly shunned the vote.