Ivory Coast: Simone Gbagbo relegated to a secondary role in the new party of the former president

Simone Gbagbo, during an opposition rally in Abidjan, September 14, 2019. AFP - SIA KAMBOU

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In Côte d'Ivoire, supporters of Laurent Gbagbo are organizing for the creation of the new party of the former president during a congress in October.

Two commissions are created to prepare the congress.

While the main pro-Gbagbo leaders all feature prominently, Simone Gbagbo is relegated to a secondary role. 

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With our correspondent in Abidjan, 

Pierre Pinto

Simone Ehivet Gbagbo did not appreciate reading her name in a list she says she discovered on social networks.

The vice-president of the FPI-GOR is appointed member of an “enlarged think tank” which includes nearly a hundred pro-Gbagbo executives.

The former First Lady, from whom the

former head of state wants to divorce

, is therefore not part of the coordination committee made up of Laurent Gbagbo's chief of staff, Emmanuel Ackah, of Assoa Adou, secretary general of the FPI -GOR, Sébastien Dano Djédjé who will chair the congress, Hubert Oulaye, the president of the EDS parliamentary group or Jean-Baptiste Gnahoré.

The pill has trouble passing

Simone Gbagbo does not appear either in the commission responsible for drawing up the party manifesto led by Laurent Akoun or in that responsible for drawing up the statutes, finding the name and proposing an acronym for the new formation.

To listen and read also: Ivory Coast: "Simone Gbagbo occupies the media space and has not said her last word" [Guest Africa]

And the pill is struggling to pass for the activist from the start, who was moved in a statement released Tuesday evening, in which she said she was not called to any meeting or was not consulted on the creation of this new party.

 I am surprised that my name is circulating as a member of a larger think tank without having even been consulted beforehand.

I am reluctant to be associated with this type of initiative because I deserve a minimum of respect and consideration, 

”writes the co-founder of the FPI.

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