 In 2002, the country held its first departmental elections to select departmental councils to oversee local infrastructure development and maintenance as well as economic and social development plans and projects.Where needed, there are 197 fifth-level communes, each headed by an elected mayor.During the 2015 Ivory Coast presidential election, President Alassane Ouattara promised a new constitution to replace the current one, considered as responsible for years of turmoil and war, with the First Ivorian Civil War and the Second Ivorian Civil War.