Laurent Gbagbo named candidate for the 2025 presidential election by his party

Laurent Gbagbo named candidate for the 2025 presidential election by

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 “.

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With our correspondent in Abidjan, Bineta Diagne

The central committee decided that the president Laurent Gbagbo either the PPA-CI candidate for 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 Ivory Coastagrees to be the PPA-CI candidate in the 2025 presidential election », continues the text. 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 “not 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 the 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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