2023-12-23 00:39:47
– Tidjane Thiam elected president of the main opposition party
The banker Tidjane Thiam was elected Friday evening with more than 96% of the votes president of the Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI). This makes him a heavyweight for the presidential election.
Published today at 1:39 a.m. Updated 44 minutes ago
Tidjane Thiam during a speech in Yamoussoukro on December 9, 2023.
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Ivorian-French banker Tidjane Thiam was elected Friday evening president of the Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI), the main opposition party, a victory which allows him to consider being a candidate for the next presidential election in 2025 .
Tidjane Thiam was elected very comfortably at a party congress in Yamoussoukro, the Ivorian capital, with more than 96% of the votes once morest the mayor of the Abidjan commune of Cocody Jean-Marc Yacé, according to the results announced late Friday evening.
More than 6,000 congresspeople were called to vote in Yamoussoukro on Saturday and were able to accomplish their duty at the end of the day, without major incident. Participation reached 64%.
With this election, the PDCI, the main opposition party which has around sixty deputies, hopes to rejuvenate its image. The party was led by Henri Konan Bédié, who died in early August at the age of 89, who did not rule out running in the 2025 presidential election.
Heavyweight for 2025
Tidjane Thiam, several times applauded or pursued by activists for selfies on Friday, thus positions himself as a strong opponent for 2025.
At the head of Côte d’Ivoire continuously from 1960 to 1999, the former single party, that of the father of independence Félix Houphouët Boigny, has not accessed the supreme office for 24 years when a coup The state chased Henri Konan Bédié from power one Christmas evening in 1999.
Once an ally of Alassane Ouattara, in power since 2011, the PDCI regained its place in the opposition in 2018 and boycotted the last presidential election.
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