Ivory Coast's constitutional council has ratified the results of last year's presidential election showing that Alassane Ouattara won, reversing an earlier decision to reject them.
The court's initial rejection of electoral commission results from the November 2010 poll sparked a more than four-month power struggle between Ouattara and incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo.
Paul Yao N'Dre, the president of the constitutional council, said on Thursday that the top legal body now accepted Ouattara had won the election.
"The constitutional council ... proclaims Alassane Ouattara president, takes note of decisions made by [him] and declares them all valid," N'Dre announced to journalists in Abidjan, the country's commercial capital.
"The constitutional council invites the president Alassane Ouattara to take an oath in front of an official audience as soon as possible. All decisions contrary to this one are null and void
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