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    Ivory Coast’s president says will seek fourth term in office | Elections News

    NigeriaNewzBy NigeriaNewzJuly 29, 2025No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Alassane Ouattara, 83, introduced the plan after altering the structure to take away presidential time period limits.

    Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has introduced he’ll search a fourth time period main the West African nation, as tensions rise over the exclusion of many heavyweight opposition candidates.

    Earlier, he had been formally nominated by his ruling Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) social gathering as its candidate, however had not but mentioned if he would contest the October 25 election.

    With the nation’s most high-profile opposition politicians ruled ineligible, Ouattara is the clear frontrunner.

    The 83-year-old president, who has led the nation since 2011, declared his plan in a televised announcement on Tuesday.

    “For a number of months, I’ve acquired quite a few calls from fellow residents concerning my potential candidacy within the presidential election,” he mentioned.

    Referring to the nation by its title in French, he went on: “Ladies and younger folks from all areas of Cote d’Ivoire, and numerous nameless voices from our neighbourhoods, cities, and villages have reached out.

    “In response to these appeals, I introduced on June 22 that, as president of all Ivorians, I might, after cautious reflection, decide guided solely by the most effective curiosity of the nation.”

    Ouattara gained a 3rd time period in 2020 after the structure was modified to reset the presidential time period restrict. He had mentioned he was not going to run once more, however he modified his place following the dying of his hand-picked successor, Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly.

    Opposition marketing campaign

    Critics of Ouattara accuse him of tightening his grip on energy and strongly oppose his operating once more.

    The opposition has accused the authorities of focusing on their opponents by authorized means, however the authorities insists the judiciary acts independently.

    The 2 important opposition events have launched a joint marketing campaign to demand the reinstatement of their barred leaders forward of the presidential election.

    This alliance brings collectively the African Folks’s Celebration of Ivory Coast (PPA-CI) – led by former president Laurent Gbagbo – and the Democratic Celebration of Ivory Coast (PDCI), the nation’s largest opposition drive, headed by former worldwide banker Tidjane Thiam.

    Gbagbo, his former right-hand man Charles Ble Goude and ex-Prime Minister Guillaume Soro have been struck from the electoral register attributable to legal convictions.

    Ouattara’s most outstanding rival, Thiam, was barred from running by a court on the grounds that he was nonetheless a French citizen on the time he declared his candidacy, regardless that he later renounced his French nationality. Ivorian regulation bans twin nationals from operating for president.

    Some earlier elections within the Ivory Coast have been fraught with pressure and violence. When Ouattara introduced his third-term bid, a number of folks had been killed within the ensuing violence. There have been protests in opposition to the courtroom’s resolution to bar Thiam from contesting the election.

    Ouattara is the most recent amongst a rising variety of leaders in West Africa who stay in energy after altering the constitutional time period restrict.

    Coup leaders within the area have used alleged corruption inside democratic governments and electoral modifications as a pretext to grab energy, resulting in a cut up within the regional bloc, the Financial Neighborhood of West African States (ECOWAS).



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