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For the UN, as for all international partners, the scale of protests and the level of repressions were a big surprise. This is the first time that the country, which has been very stable and where people are generally quite reserved in terms of expressing their political views, is seeing an election contested to this degree. Another unexpected phenomenon was the social mobilization and the use of technology that allows people to communicate and coordinate their protests in real-time.