Swiss Swiss President to run for Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast

His party confirmed that Credit Suisse is the former Tidjane Thiam to run for the presidency in the upcoming elections for Ivory Coast.

Tham, 62, was the only candidate competing for the representative of the main opposition party in the country, PDCI.

He spent the last two decades to live abroad, and had to abandon his French nationality to be able to stand in the presidential elections.

The former minister held positions in the leading international companies such as Aviva, Prudential and Credit Suisse, although he resigned from the latter after the espionage scandal.

Political scientist Jeffroy Coyo told Agence France -Presse that Tham was not well known to the Evoreen, “after spending more than 20 years of the country to pursue his commercial career, and therefore a strong campaign should be managed to win the October elections.

The ruling RHDP party has not announced its candidate, but the current president, who is 83 years old, has indicated that he wanted to run for what will be a fourth period in his post.

Three other prominent characters, including former President Laurent Gibagbo, were banned from running, according to Agence France -Presse.

Thiam had a volatile profession.

After he became the first Evora to pass the admission exam to the France School of Engineering Technology, he returned to Ivory Coast and seized politics.

In 1998, 36 years old, he became Minister of Planning before PDCI was expelled from power in a coup the following year.

Then he moved out and continued a successful work profession.

In 2009, he became the first black person to head a company on the FTSE 100 in the United Kingdom when he was appointed CEO of PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE Company.

However, he was subsequently controlled by a financial organizer for not opening it for the planned acquisition.

Five years later as President of Swiss Bank Credit Swiss, he had to resign in 2020 after he was accused of spying on the fishermen’s colleagues, who denied him.

He is well linked to the political circles in West Africa-Fe is the first president of the first president in Ivory Coast, Felix Hofuit-Beni, while his uncle Thiam, Prime Minister in Senegal, was on two occasions, extending to a total of nine years.