Ivory Coast: struck off in 2020, Laurent Gbagbo wants to re-register on the electoral lists

Abidjan, October 17, 2022: former President Laurent Gbagbo at the podium of his new party, the PPA-CI, which celebrated its first candle on Monday.

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While the electoral list revision operations continue in Côte d'Ivoire, in anticipation of the 2023 local elections, political parties are encouraging their supporters to register, in particular Laurent Gbagbo's PPA-CI.

Tuesday, November 29, the former president showed the example, but it is not sure that the Independent Electoral Commission validates his re-registration.

Because, despite the presidential pardon of Alassane Ouattara, the ex-president remains condemned by justice.

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With our correspondent in Abidjan,

Sidy Yansané

It was in a school in the commune of Cocody that Laurent Gbagbo passed the stage of registration on the electoral lists.

Convicted in absentia in the case of 

the "BCEAO heist

 ", the former president had been struck off the lists two months before the presidential election of 2020. If the historical opponent has since

benefited from a presidential pardon

, the conviction therefore remains recorded in his criminal record and could call into question his re-registration as a voter.

Two weeks ago, on Ivorian television, the president of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) Ibrahime Coulibaly-Kuibiert recalled

that only an amnesty

or rehabilitation by justice can regain his civic rights.

Reached by RFI,

PPA-CI

spokesman Justin Koné Katinan believes that this is first of all a " 

beginning of registration

 ".

" 

Laurent Gbagbo has done his civic duty

," he adds.

We are now waiting for the sequel

 ”.

Since the start of enrollment operations last month, the PPA-CI, the newest political party, has been trying to awaken its potential electoral base, by calling on it to enroll massively.

Ahead of his first test at the polls in local elections next year. 

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