Mr Bedié is overshadowed by the ghost of Felix Houphouet-Boigny, the country's founding father and long-time ruler.
It comes less than a month before an election to complete a transition back to democracy after a popular uprising toppled Burkina Faso's long-time ruler last year.
The plea to annul the first round of voting came from a second defeated first-round candidate, Qasim Ibrahim, a local tycoon who was finance minister under the long-time ruler Gayoom.
Tunisia's Islamists have taken a more flexible approach to allowing officials in the Ben Ali era to return to politics, and avoided the turmoil that has gripped Libya since long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi was deposed in 2011.
Tunisians went to the polls on Sunday to pick their first directly elected president, the final step in the North African state's transition to full democracy following a 2011 revolution that ousted long-time ruler Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Al-Qaida has had a presence in Yemen for years, but expanded its influence during last year's political upheaval when millions of Yemenis rallied across the country demanding the ouster of their long-time ruler, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Part of a spectacular new exhibition at Musée de l'Armée, Les Invalides, in Paris, the bed is a powerful symbol that the former emperor, one-time ruler of half of Europe and terror of the rest, was a soldier to the end, the "little corporal" beloved of his troops.
Libya has been hit by instability since the overthrow of long-time ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011.
Mr Nasheed, a former human rights campaigner, beat long-time ruler Mr Gayoom, who had been in power for 30 years and was widely seen as autocratic.
