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Ivory Coast Gears Up for 2025 Presidential Elections

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Ivory Coast Gears Up for 2025 Presidential Elections

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Former Ivorian Prime Minister Pascal Affi N’Guessan is the Presidential candidate for the Popular Ivorian Front (FPI) in the 2025 election. N’Guessan was re-elected president of the FPI with 99.34% of the votes cast by some 4,500 voters.

Former Ivorian Prime Minister Pascal Affi N’Guessan is the Presidential candidate for the Popular Ivorian Front (FPI) in the 2025 election. N’Guessan was re-elected president of the FPI with 99.34% of the votes cast by some 4,500 voters.

The FPI is the party of former President Laurent Gbagbo. N’Guessan took over its leadership during Gbagbo’s incarceration in the Hague on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges. N’Guessan has sought the presidency in 2015 and 2020, each time losing to Alassane Ouattara, the incumbent.

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He rejected the results and was briefly arrested on accusations of running a parallel government. Some of N’Guessan key proposals include abolishing the Senate and the restoration of presidential term limits.