Is the new election in Benin really about change?

Is this a democratic transition… or a controlled political regime succession?

🗣️ On April 12, 2006, the citizens of Benin went to the polls to vote for a new democratic elected president.

🗣️ The wining presidential candidate, Romuald Wadagni, is not an outsider of the French-backed government of Benin, in actuality he is a chosen successor of the current (out-going) president, Patrice Talon.

🗣️ President-elect, Romuald Wadagni, was hand-picked by Patrice Talon, with the backing of Macron and the French government.

🗣️ The next president of Benin, President-elect, Romuald Wadagni, is the country’s long-serving Minister of Economy and Finance, under the French-backed regime of Patrice Talon.

🗣️ Majority of the parliamentary seats in Benin is occupied by the current French-backed Patrice Talon’s political party regime.

🗣️Remember the failed attempted coup d’etat on December 7, 2025?

🗣️ After the failed coup d’etat, the security apparatus in Benin changed. Patrice Talon literary brought in French military officers to vanguard his regime. Patrice Talon can not and does not trust his own Benin military guards to protect him, so he literally brought in French military guards to protect him and his regime. (There was already a French military presence in Benin even before the coup attempt on December 7, 2025, mostly stationed around the border of Burkina Faso and Niger. The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) leaders has confirmed that these French military troops in Benin are training radical jihadist terrorist groups to destabilize the AES countries and the Sahel regions).

🗣️Patrice Talon literally brought in a new military group from France to vanguard his regime, after the attempted military coup.

🗣️ The security measures in Benin has dramatically increased and French military presence has increased, as well.

🗣️ The French military presence in Benin is there only to protect the power of Patrice Talon’s French-backed regime and ultimately, the interests of France.

🗣️Patrice Talon is stepping down as president of Benin, but he has hand-picked his successor, Romuald Wadagni, with the backing of Macron and the French government.

🗣️ Different Black Face, same French-backed regime in Benin.

🗣️For the ordinary citizen of Benin, nothing changes. There will be no improvements in the quality of his or her daily life, from the outcome of this new democratic election in Benin.

🗣️Western countries are celebrating the election in Benin as a win for democracy.

“The 2026 presidential election in this coastal West African country of 14.5 million people holds significance not only for its democratic trajectory but also for its governance and security implications for all of West Africa. The presidential election is a test of Benin’s democratic resiliency.”

— African Center for Strategic Studies. Benin: Rebuilding Democratic Norms Has Far Reaching Regional Implications, April 13, 2026 (a western political think-tank)

🗣️ Is democratic elections a tool of change or is it a tool of continuity, continuity of the same ol’ democracy gatekeepers in Kmt=Abibiman=Farafin=Sudan=Land of the Blacks= (Africa)?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/13/government-candidate-wadagni-on-course-to-win-benin-presidential-vote

aljazeera.com

Benin’s Wadagni wins presidential election with landslide 94% of votes

The incoming president faces serious security issues in the north of the country and challenges to living standards.