By RFIPosted on 12-22-2019Changed on 12-28-2019 at 10:11 PM
During a press briefing with his Equatorial Guinean counterpart, Alassane Ouattara spoke for the first time on the so-called "Guillaume Soro affair". He ensures that the law will be applied.
President Alassane Ouattara warned on Saturday against any attempt to destabilize Côte d'Ivoire, alluding to the Guillaume Soro affair and warning all the presidential candidates of 2020.
" No one will be allowed to destabilize Côte d'Ivoire, " said the Ivorian president. The law will be applied to all, candidate or not. And the candidacies are not yet opened by the independent electoral commission. And even if it were, no one is above the law. As well the former presidents, the presidents of institutions, the president of the Republic as all the others. "
" We are citizens and we are responsible before the courts ," he added. MPs are not above the law. They cannot be prosecuted in the exercise of their function. But when they are involved in the destabilization of this country, they have to face the rigor of the law. "
Guillaume Soro is accused by justice of having fomented "a civil and military insurrection" to seize power, which he denies. He tried to return to Côte d'Ivoire on Monday after six months abroad, but his plane turned back to Europe, where it is currently located.
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