By RFIPalled on 14-09-2019Modified on 14-09-2019 at 04:32

The two historically opposed parties, the PDCI and the FPI, are organizing a rally on Saturday, 14 September, a first in Ivorian politics. Since the meeting between Henri Konan Bédié and Laurent Gbagbo in Brussels in late July, the two political parties confirm their rapprochement. The first show of force of the two former Ivorian presidents will take place this morning at Treichville Sports Park in Abidjan. With a stated goal: the reconquest of power in 2020.

A year ago, this commercial would have surprised more than one. And he simply would not have been born during the reign of the father of the Ivorian nation, Félix Houphouët-Boigny. For the first time in the country's political history, the liberal PDCI and its natural left-wing opponent FPI are calling their activists to a giga-meeting of national reconciliation.

Finally organized at the Treichville Sports Park, the event was initially planned at Champroux Stadium Marcory, refused by the authorities because of work. An unavailability of the site that some opponents had analyzed as a maneuver of power.

The meeting is also the first political gathering of the Coalition for Democracy, Reconciliation and Peace (CDRP), the opposition platform regrouping the PDCI, Gbagbo's FPI and the parties close to the former president of the National Assembly Guillaume Soro.

If the reconciliation remains the theme displayed, the meeting will also be used to measure the mobilization capacity of the PDCI-FPI duo, in view of the presidential 2020. In fact, the event confirms the rupture between Henri Konan Bédié and Pascal Affi N 'N'Guessan. The president of the FPI officially recognized by the authorities, in cold with Laurent Gbagbo, is not invited to this unprecedented gathering.

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