Ivory Coast opposition leader resigns but vows to still fight for victory | Elections News

The Tidjane Thiam campaign has stopped since presidential candidates cannot have double citizenship.

The main opposition leader of Ivory Coast has said that he is renouncing as a party leader, but would lead the fight to win the elections, after Bone forbade being standing in a October presidential vote.

“For the sake of the party, I decided to place my mandate as president of the party in his hands, the activists,” Thiam said in a speech published on social networks on Monday.

“This decision does not change the commitment I made in December 2023 to personally take our party to La Victoria in October 2025.”

President Alassane Ouattara, 83, who has the leg in power since 2011, has not yet said if he plans to run again, but has said that he is anxious to “serve my country continuous.”

The Tidjane Thiam campaign for the presidency of the country of Western Africa has joined the fights about their nationality, since presidential candidates cannot have a double citizenship.

Thiam was born on the Ivory coast and resigned from his French passport in March to allow his career for the best work. However, an Abidjan court hit him out of the electoral list last month, saying that the 62 -year -old politician had lost ivory nationality when he acquired French citizenship in 1987.

Thiam also faces a legal case against his election as head of the Democratic Party of the Ivory Coast – African Democratic Rally (PDCI) after a party member also challenged his ivory nationality at the time he was elected.

The Vice President of PDCI, Ernest N’koumo Mobio, assumed the provisional leadership of the party after Thiam’s announcement. He appealed to “cohesion, serenity and discipline” and convened a meeting of the party early due to “the urgency linked to the political situation.”

Three other opposition figures also have legs excluded from the presidential race, including former President Laurent Gbagbo due to judicial convictions.

Thiam alleged irregularities on Monday. “While we had the right to expect inclusive, transparent and peaceful elections, it is clear that the unjustified elimination of the PDCI candidate is part of the logic of eliminating leaders from the main opposition parties to guarantee victory,” Hey said.

The authorities regularly reject the statements of any political intervention in the electoral process, saying that decisions are tasks of an independent judiciary.