Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo is preparing to launch his new party

Laurent Gbagbo, June 17, 2021. AFP - SIA KAMBOU

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This weekend, the former Ivorian president brings his new party to the baptismal font.

Laurent Gbagbo decided in August to leave the FPI, which he describes as an “ 

 ” to Pascal Affi N'Guessan.

The FPI has been torn since 2014 between supporters of Affi N'Guessan, president of the party recognized by justice, and a fringe who has remained loyal to Laurent Gbagbo.

The latter therefore left the FPI to found their own training which - barring a dramatic turn of events - should be called "PPA-CI".

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With our correspondent in Abidjan,

The "Party of African Peoples - Ivory Coast".

This is the name proposed by the committees which have been working for weeks on the substance and the form that this new party will take.

The emblem chosen by these commissions is two hands intertwined in a map of Africa.

Basically, the new party is on the left and will claim socialism and pan-Africanism.

He says he is attached to the values ​​of human rights, democracy, justice and sovereignty.

A name, a logo, an emblem and texts which will therefore be submitted to the validation of the 1,600 delegates gathered for two days at the Hotel Ivoire in Abidjan. 

Simone Gbagbo unites her supporters

Simone Ehivet Gbagbo will she be? The Ivorian press understands that it is not, since it would be traveling. The former first lady, co-founder and historical figure of the FPI, had expressed her dissatisfaction at not having been consulted during the establishment of the preparatory commissions and at having discovered her name on the list of a think tank . Shortly after, she united her supporters in

called "MGC", a sort of prelude to a possible political party.

Still, the organizers of the PPA-CI Congress, if its name is retained, expect a lot of people.

On the sidelines of the meeting at the Hotel Ivoire where the executives will be locked up, a “ 

 ” has been set up in the Blokoss district, a few hundred meters away, to welcome thousands of supporters and future activists.

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