Ivory Coast: the congress of Laurent Gbagbo's new party is sold out

Former president Laurent Gbagbo, here in Abidjan on July 27, 2021. REUTERS - LUC GNAGO

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Four months after returning to Côte d'Ivoire, the former president officially launches his new party at a constitutive congress which opened this Saturday, October 16 in Abidjan.

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With our correspondent in Abidjan,

He's more than three hours behind schedule.

Laurent Gbagbo makes his entrance into the packed hall of the Palais des Congrès of the Ivoire hotel in Abidjan, to the cheers and cheers of the executives of his future party.

The ban and the backbench of the “Gbagbo or Nothing” are there, as well as the representatives of other parties, friends but not only.

Thus, the presence of Adama Bictogou, executive director of RHDP, surprised some delegates.

He places his presence in the continuity of the Ouattara-Gbagbo meeting of July 27.

The absence of Simone Gbagbo

The room also includes many foreign delegations such as that of the French Communist Party led by the deputy Jean-Paul Lecoq, but also representatives of the Nigerien MNSD or the Ghanaian NDC.

Particularly acclaimed, the Chadian opponent

, 38, pleaded for a new pan-Africanism and addressed Laurent Gbagbo: “ 

 "

One absence was particularly noted: that of Simone Gbagbo.

The former first lady in personal and political rupture with Laurent Gbagbo is in the DRC for an evangelical conference.

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