His political group, the African Peoples’ Party-Côte d’Ivoire (PPA-CI), did not file a final appeal with the administrative court.
With our correspondent in Abidjan, Francois Hume-Ferkatadji
The PPA-CI had three days from Monday, June 26 to file a second appeal with the administrative court. This legal procedure was ultimately not launched. For several months, the party has been asking for the reinstatement of Laurent Gbagbo on the electoral list. “ We are not going to make the same request, facing the same judges “Explains Justin Koné Katinan, the party spokesperson.
At the end of June, the Independent Electoral Commission rejected this request.
Acquitted by the ICC of crimes against humanity committed during the 2010-2011 post-election crisis, the former Ivorian president remains under sentence of 20 years in prison in Côte d’Ivoire for the case. said of the “robbery” of the Central Bank of West African States, the BCEAO, in 2011. A condemnation that Laurent Gbagbo “ strenuously refutes “, he recalled recently.
Pardoned by the presidency, but not amnestied, he therefore remains deprived of his civic rights.
Supporters of Laurent Gbagbo can still hope that the leader of the PPA-CI stands in the next presidential election. Indeed, a new revision of the electoral list is planned before the 2025 election.
According to a press release from his party, Laurent Gbagbo ” considers this non-registration as a political maneuver aimed at keeping him out of political life “, however, it is ” point affected by the situation “, specifies the document.