Ivory Coast: the new president of the PDCI Tidjane Thiam meets Laurent Gbagbo
After his election in mid-December, the new president of the PDCI, Tidjane Thiam, Franco-Ivorian and possible candidate for the 2025 presidential election, wishes to occupy the political field.
After a visit to the evacuated Yopougon Gesco site, he met the former President of the Republic Laurent Gbagbo at his home in Mama, in the west of the country.
Tidjane Thiam, the new president of the PDCI, December 22, 2023. © SIA KAMBOU / AFP
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With our correspondent in Abidjan,
François Hume-Ferkatadji
Occupying the political and media terrain is the credo of the new PDCI president Tidjane Thiam.
On Friday, the former Minister of Planning traveled to the Yopougon Gesco district, amid the rubble, to provide support to the displaced populations.
“
It is regrettable to see evictions without adequate provisions for the rehousing of the affected populations
,” commented the Franco-Ivorian and possible PDCI candidate for the 2025 presidential election. The destruction of this neighborhood without notice, according to the residents, also aroused the excitement of the National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH).
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The next day, the president of the PDCI went to the west of the country, to Mama, to the home of Laurent Gbagbo.
Tidjane Thiam is part of the continuity of the policy led by Henri Konan Bédié.
Since the 2020 presidential election, the PDCI has moved closer to Laurent Gbagbo's movement, to the point of forming electoral alliances, for the legislative elections of 2021 and the municipal elections of 2023.
Henri Konan Bédié
had also invited Laurent Gbagbo to his home, in Bédiékro , a few weeks after his return to the country, after ten years in exile.
At the end of his nearly 2.5 hour interview with Laurent Gbabo, Tidjane Thiam indicated that discussions focused on the preparation of the 2025 presidential election, in particular the revision of the electoral lists and the registration of new voters on the lists.
Furthermore, he confirmed that Laurent Gbagbo would be present at the funeral of former president Henri Konan Bédié, the date of which is still to be defined.
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