After the Re-establishment of electoral commission as it was the wish of the opposition. Finally the Ivory Coast's opposition says it will join the new government and call off violent protests that have rocked the nation since President Laurent Gbagbo dissolved the electoral commission this month, an opposition spokesman said.

Gbagbo disbanded the government and electoral commission on February 12 after accusing former commission Chief Robert Mambe, also a PDCI member, of illegally adding names to the voter list to boost the opposition. Mambe has since denied the charge.

That decision delayed elections that were already years overdue from March, provoking a public outcry that led to the violent street protests.

The world's top producer of cocoa announced the formation of a new electoral commission after naming a replacement government. These are key steps towards holding long-delayed elections and ending the demonstrations in which at least seven people have died.

In the statement, spokesman for the opposition groups Alphonse Djedje Mady said.,"We are satisfied with this first stage of the reinstallation of the independent electoral commission, which will now go back to work,"

"The RHDP and PIT (parties) have therefore decided to make their entry into the government," he told a news conference. "There remain some small questions to sort out but ... the principle of our entering the government is (agreed)."

The main opposition coalition had also vowed to continue protests against Gbagbo until he reinstated the commission and the government. They were now called off, Mady said.

"RHDP and PIT call on their sympathizers and activists to stay mobilised but to end all demonstrations. We have to stay vigilant, but protests have to be suspended," he said.

However, the new electoral commission said earlier on Friday that its president would be Youssouf Bakayoko, an opposition PDCI party member. Commission members were chosen in a deal struck by Ivory Coast's political parties, and the commission then elected Bakayoko to lead it.

The new electoral commission president in his brief statement after his election in the early hours of Friday promised transparent results acceptable to everyone.

Elections are expected to hold in May 8 /2010 if the electoral commission gets to work immediately.

Source : Africa News