ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has agreed to fly his party's flag as presidential candidate in the 2025 elections.
Katinan Kone, spokesperson of
his party the African People’s Party – Cote d’Ivoire (PPA-CI), which Gbagbo
founded in 2021 gave the news after a meeting of the party’s central committee
on Saturday.
Acquitted in 2019 by the
International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges relating to his role in a civil
war sparked by his refusal to concede defeat in the 2010 election, Gbagbo
returned to Ivory Coast in 2021.
He lost control of the party
he previously founded, the Ivorian Popular Front (IPF), while imprisoned
awaiting trial in the Netherlands for several years, but he is believed to
still retain a large and loyal base of supporters at home.
The west African country's
next election is expected to be held in October 2025. President Alassane
Ouattara, 82, who was re-elected in 2020 has not yet said whether he will run
again.
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