By RFPosted on 22-08-2019Modified on 22-08-2019 at 20:02

Charles Blé Goudé announced Wednesday, August 21, the accession of his party, the Pan-African Congress for Justice and Equality of Peoples, the platform bringing together the opposition parties Alassane Ouattara. Laurent Gbagbo's former minister is still living in The Hague, the Netherlands, pending an appeal by the prosecutor following his acquittal of crimes against humanity by the ICC. It is thus a delegation of the PDCI-RDA, the party of Henri Konan Bédié, who came to meet the president of the COJEP.

The meeting in The Hague between the delegation of PDCI-RDA and Charles Blé Goudé essentially gave rise to exchanges of courtesy. The special envoys of Henri Konan Bédié wanted the freedom and the return to Côte d'Ivoire of the former young patriot.

The exchange concluded with Bédié's thanks for COJEP joining the anti-Ouattara alliance . It is not yet established whether this rapprochement is compatible with a candidacy of Charles Blé Goudé in the presidential election next year.

Still, in recent months, the newly elected COJEP president has sent contrary signals about his future. Last May, he declared that he would be a candidate for nothing in 2020. But he assured a month later to our colleagues in France 24 his ambitions to lead his country one day. COJEP members say that the party will necessarily present a candidate for the next presidential election.

This membership of the anti-Ouattara alliance comes one month after the discussion between Henri Konan Bédié and Laurent Gbagbo . Charles Blé Goudé swears that he will remain loyal to Gbagbo as long as he is active in Ivorian politics.

Ivory Coast: Meeting between Charles Blé Goudé and emissaries of former President Bédié https://t.co/plyqP0GUAx pic.twitter.com/EqLUWoHPTE

African Tares (@AfricainesTares) August 22, 2019

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