Ivory Coast bars Laurent Gbagbo and key opposition leader from Presidential Race

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Ivory Coast bars Laurent Gbagbo and key opposition leader from Presidential Race  The Constitutional Council announced that former president Laurent Gbagbo and former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam are ineligible to run in the October 25th vote. The council cited their removal from the electoral roll as the reason for their exclusion.   READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/09/09/ivory-coast-bars-laurent-gbagbo-and-key-opposition-leader-from-presidential-race  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Ivory Coast's presidential race takes a dramatic turn as two major opposition figures are now

00:07officially barred from next month's election.

00:10The Constitutional Council announced that former President Laurent Gbagbo and former

00:14Credit Suisse CEO Tijan Thiam are inevitable to run in the October 25th vote.

00:21The council cited their removal from the electoral roll as the reason for their exclusion.

00:26Tiam, leader of the PDCI, Ivory Coast's largest opposition party, was removed in April due

00:33to nationality-related legal issues after acquiring French citizenship.

00:38Gbagbo, head of the African People's Party, was excluded because of a past criminal conviction.

00:44Despite their disqualifications, both men had formally submitted their candidacies to challenge

00:49President Alassane Ouattara, who was seeking a fourth term at the age of 83, with their

00:55exclusion, five candidates remain in the race, including former First Lady Simone Yvette Gbagbo.

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