Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo designated candidate for the 2025 presidential election by his party
In Ivory Coast, the central committee of the African Peoples' Party (PPA-CI) designated its leader, Laurent Gbagbo, as its candidate for the 2025 presidential election this Saturday. The announcement was made during a meeting internal, supposed to address “
the national socio-political situation
”.
Laurent Gbagbo in March 2023. AFP - SIA KAMBOU
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With our correspondent in Abidjan,
Bineta Diagne
“
The central committee has decided that President
Laurent Gbagbo
is the candidate of the PPA-CI in the 2025 election
,” we read in a press release published following the meeting which took place in the presence only of party executives.
The former president of
Côte d'Ivoire
“
agrees to be the PPA-CI candidate in the 2025 presidential election
,” the text continues.
This choice of party must still be made official during a convention or congress whose date has not yet been set.
Last August, in front of the press, Laurent Gbagbo assured that being president was “no
longer an obsession
”.
“
I'm in politics because it's the job I know, and I will do politics until I die
,” he added.
This announcement comes two weeks after President
Alassane Ouattara
granted a pardon to 51 people, including many activists and former military officials favorable to Laurent Gbagbo.
This opponent himself has benefited from a presidential pardon since August 2022, but he has been removed from the electoral lists.
Laurent Gbagbo is in fact ineligible, because his civil rights were suspended following a conviction in
the so-called “BCEAO” affair.
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