By RFIPosted on 24-11-2019Modified on 24-11-2019 at 21:35
Announced for several weeks, the meeting between Charles Blé Goudé and Guillaume Soro took place this Sunday, November 24 in The Hague. The two political leaders had not met since the crisis that followed the November 2010 presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire.
With our correspondent in The Hague, Stéphanie Maupas
This meeting took place at the initiative of Guillaume Soro, presidential candidate scheduled for December 2020 and who for several months has been trying to mobilize in opposition to President Alassane Ouattara . A ballot that is not yet reported the final communiqué of the meeting, and the two men did not reveal their discussions that lasted nearly two hours.
They simply " urged the Abidjan regime " to organize " inclusive national political foundations ", according to the terms of their joint communiqué, to " empty all the liabilities of the recent crisis that has plunged Côte d'Ivoire ".
On his arrival at the meeting place, in offices in the center of The Hague, Guillaume Soro spoke of a " friendship and fraternity " approach and recalled the moments spent in prison, when they were both students.
In a recent interview, Charles Blé Goudé had indicated that he did not support, for the moment, any candidate. The President of COJEP remains subject to the conditions imposed by the ICC following his acquittal in February. He can not leave The Hague where he resides pending the decision on the appeal filed by the prosecutor against his acquittal and that of Laurent Gbagbo.
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