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00:17 Laurent Gbagbo, who returned from Belgium on June 17, is far from the image of the
00:22 weak, powerless man, transferred to the Netherlands, the Netherlands, on December 2, 2011, to be
00:28 judged by the International Criminal Court, CPI.
00:31 Definitely acquitted at the end of ten years of a judicial procedure with multiple
00:36 rebounds, the former head of state who still enjoys undeniable popularity, did not come
00:40 as a mere reconciler.
00:42 Ten years after losing power, in unfair conditions according to him, he landed
00:47 on the shores of the Ebrie lagoon with a very clear ambition, to return to the presidential palace.
00:52 And he gives himself the means.
00:54 Re-mobilization of his troops, offensive statements, but also a return to the diplomatic scene.
01:00 He is also one of the followers of the doctrine according to which "a war is won with
01:05 allies".
01:06 Beyond the internal contingencies, the geostrategic issues are decisive in the outcome of a
01:11 political arm.
01:12 He experienced it during his presidency, through his rapprochements with the Mbeki regimes
01:18 in South Africa and Dos Santos in Angola, whose proximity with his power was a
01:23 secret of polychineal.
01:24 At the same time, the diplomatic relations of his adversaries, including his successor,
01:29 Alassane Ouattara, were fatal to him after a long period of political confrontation.
01:34 Today in the skin of the opponent, he realizes that the cards are turned.
01:38 The radiance of his rival recognized by the international community in 2010 was blown
01:44 away with the electoral crisis of the third mandate, the military interventions of France
01:48 in Ivory Coast, then in Libya, added to the controversial positions observed by Paris
01:53 in the crises in Central Africa, Mali, Chad, etc. have profoundly changed the nature of
01:58 the diagrams that the Elysée could envisage in the crisis situations in Africa.
02:02 In addition, the "victim" is him.
02:06 The one who said "true" in the 2010 contentious is still him, since he was
02:11 blanched by international justice.
02:13 His trip to Congo Kinshasa, during which he met, outside his host, Jean-Pierre
02:19 Bamba, the current head of the Congolese state, Félix Tshisekedi on Sunday, July 4, is
02:24 a posture that is undoubtedly far from being trivial.
02:26 In the former Republic of Zaire, Laurent Gbagbo is in conquered territory.
02:31 The Congolese leader and he, in addition to being an ideological partner within the
02:37 international socialist "IS", has every reason to support Alassane Ouattara's predecessor.
02:41 According to RFI, in a publication published in the evening of this Monday, July 5, the
02:46 relations have always existed between the Gbagbo camp and the Tshisekedi family.
02:49 Politically, Étienne Tshisekedi, the father of the current head of the Congolese state and Laurent
02:54 Gbagbo respected and maintained good relations.
02:57 The Ivorian Popular Front was the partner of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress.
03:02 UDPS.
03:03 The two movements were even considered as two important parties in the African branch
03:09 of the socialist international towards the end of the 2000s.
03:11 Hope for democratic renewal in the Congo chased after the departure of Joseph Kabila in January
03:17 2019 and current president of the African Union (UA) since February 7, 2021, he appears
03:23 as a strategic ally for Laurent Gbagbo, resolute to once again make his way to the palace
03:28 of the plateau, in Abidjan.
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