Laurent Gbagbo rules out any boycott policy in the elections

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With our correspondent in Abidjan, Bineta Diagne

Dressed in a black ensemble, Laurent Gbagbo first wanted to mark a minute of silence, in memory of former President Henri Konan Bédié.

Then the former head of state gets to the heart of the matter: he encourages his activists in view of the local elections on September 2. ” My role, he says, is to lead my party to power ” And ” not to reorganize the Ivorian opposition “.

The leader of the PPA-CI fears fraud, but this time he abandons the boycott strategy: “ We will never miss the elections again. Because the fact of having decided, after my arrest, that we would not go to the elections, caused us a lot of damage. So we can no longer miss the elections. So we denounce fraud, but we continue to go to elections. »

For these elections, Laurent Gbagbo’s party is forging alliances in several localities with the PDCI-RDA: it puts any differences into perspective and wishes to keep the principle of this rapprochement intact. ” Both parties are here, they will talk after the funeral to take stock, and I hope to continue, forward “, he hammered.

Becoming president again is not no longer an obsession “, says Gbagbo

Removed from the electoral list since 2020 due to a conviction by the Ivorian justice, Laurent Gbagbo intends to relaunch his file after the local deadlines: it is a ” honor story he says.

Currently removed from the voters’ lists, Laurent Gbagbo does not rule out running for president in 2025 if his party asks him to. But the former president claimed that becoming president again was “not no longer an obsession ” for him.