By RFIPalled on 18-08-2019Modified on 18-08-2019 at 22:31
The former Minister of Youth of Laurent Gbagbo, released conditionally by the ICC last January, is still in The Hague. But he was present Sunday in video and live to attend the first congress of Cojep Sunday, August 18.
Created in 2001, the Cojep celebrates its 18th birthday with this first ordinary congress which has been held since Saturday in Yopougon, a district of Abidjan. The age of maturity in sum as insists its founder Charles Blé Goudé and his followers. Since 2015, the movement of the Congress of Young Patriots has given way to a political party, the Pan-African Congress for Justice and Equality of Peoples (Cojep) .
On Sunday afternoon, hundreds of activists out of the 10,000 claimed by the party elected the former minister of youth unanimously. They also appointed the chairman of the party's control, discipline and ethics committee.
During these two days, the former leader of the Young Patriots of Côte d'Ivoire addressed his supporters by video conference from The Hague where he is still under house arrest despite his acquittal . For Charles Blé Goudé, the Cojep gradually enters the court of major parties. He must now appoint his team and especially await the decision of a possible appeal of the prosecutor Fatou Bensouda.
The former minister has repeatedly stated that he will not engage in the presidential race in a year. However, the president of the first Congress Bly Roselin says that the decision will be made during the second half of 2020 and that the Cojep will necessarily present a candidate for the poll.
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