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Ex-Cote d’Ivoire President Gbagbo to contest 2025 election

Former Cote d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo has declared his intention to contest the 2025 presidential election in the West African country.

Gbagbo’s spokesman, Katinan Kone, disclosed that the former president, on Saturday, March 9, 2024, agreed to lead the party he founded into the 2025 presidential election.

Gbagbo, president of Cote d’Ivoire from 2000 to 2011, launched his African People’s Party – Cote d’Ivoire (PPA-CI) in 2021 following his acquittal on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and return from a decade abroad.

The 78-year-old former president was acquitted in 2019 by the Netherlands-based ICC on charges relating to his role in a civil war sparked by his refusal to concede defeat in an election.

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Gbagbo lost control of the party he previously founded, the Ivorian Popular Front (IPF), to a former ally while imprisoned awaiting trial in the Netherlands for several years, but he retains a large and loyal base of supporters at home.

The election is expected to be held in October 2025.

President Alassane Ouattara, who was re-elected in 2020, has not yet said whether he will run again.

Another possible contender is Tidjane Thiam, former chief executive of Swiss bank Credit Suisse, who in December became president of the PDCI, one of Cote d’Ivoire’s main opposition parties, though the party has not yet formally designated its chosen candidate.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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