“The President of the Thaith!”: Supporters gathered the banned IVF opposition Politics News

Despite the heavy rains and slippery roads, the supporters of the presidential candidate Tijin Thaham poured into the streets of Abidjan in the thousands on Saturday to a march on the offices of the Elective Coast Electoral Commission.

They were provided with white and green colors of the Thiam Democratic Exhibitions party in Ivory Coast (PDCI), and the demonstrators hesitated to be a title for him – “Thithi!” – In a support for a candidate officially prohibited from voting. Signs read “No plan B!” He flew high in protest songs.

“We strongly owe the removal of President Thiam Thiam, and the other major opposition leaders,” said PDCI, the executive of PDCI, one of the people who were allowed through a large police barrier to file a complaint to the committee, and told him his strategic strategy. “This is unacceptable and dangerous to peace and democracy in our country,” he said.

The protests shed light on the growing tensions in the second largest economy in West Africa, before the general elections in October that a lot of fear may lead to violence in a country with memories that are still fresh about the 2011 civil war.

At stake is the Ivory Coast Continue stability Amid a regional security crisis, but government government bids are likely to be related to many political voters and competitors, in addition to what critics say is the target of the government on opponents.

The strongest competitor, Owatara, Tham, was struck from the list of final candidates June 4 After the electoral committee said that it is not qualified to run because it lost the IVF automatically when he obtained French citizenship in the 1980s.

Although Tham abandoned his French nationality to restore the first Ivorian in February, the court ruled in May that Evora was not technical when he joined the electoral registry in 2022.

Supporters of Thama Uatara, who has led since 2011, accused the road for a fourth period. The last elections were boycotted in 2020 by the opposition, which argued that Outtara had reached the limits of his term, and handed him an easy victory. In the 2015 elections, Ouattara was a clear favorite.

Former President Laurent Gibagbo and his old right leg Charles Ble Judy were also subjected to negligence in the 2011 civil war. The former prize minister was also removed by Gomium Soro, who was convicted of fraud.

Silvan Naguseneh, Professor of Policy at the University of Bonduku, told Alvain N’guestan, Professor of Policy at Boundoko University, to Alvain N’Guestan, Professor of Policy at Bondoukou University, to Alvain N’Guestan, Professor of Politics at the University of Bonduko, for Alvain N’Guestan, Professor of Politics at the University of Bonduko, for Alvain N’guestan Schond Schonds will suffer ouattara will suffer ouattara will suffer from illegitimacy if he runs without these four.

“He will be seen as a candidate forced to exclude all other serious candidates to impose himself. What is the relationship with which this president will be associated with the other parties, with voters?” He said.

A new face in the troubled policy

Many Evoorians, especially young voters, view that businessman Thaham is a soul of fresh air and departure from the policy of an exciting division institution that has witnessed a focused force in a few hands.

At the age of thirty-six, he is two decades of time from Ouattara and is linked to Felix Houphouet-Boigny, the first Prime Minister of Ivorian. Tham was the first Ivorian student to get a place in the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique technician in Paris in 1982, where he was launched to the higher trip companies such as the giant MCKINSEY. In 1994, he returned to the house to occupy a ministerial position in the launch of several infrastructure projects. A military coup in 1999, however, shorten that profession.

In 2015, he became the first African president of Swiss Bank Credit Suisse, but he resigned in 2019 after a spying scandal: a fellow accused Thiam to spy on him, although a court later disinfectedly of violations. In 2022, Thaham returned to the Ivory Coast and the PDCI party, which was specified once.

The Thama Party is a return to the economic development that flourished during the Huphouet-Poigny era, which is attributed to the “IVF Miracle” or the rapid development that came after the colonial rule.

Thiam also promised to include everyone, regardless of race or religion.

“He is displayed as a new leader, a new face that can lead Côte d’Ivoire in a different way,” Ngwisan said, adding that the young Everein is tired of faces such as Uatara and GBAGBO, who are associated with the troubled policy.

Critics say his international career means that he is far -reaching locally, but Thiam claims to be loved. In an interview with BBC in April, the government accused him of specifically targeting him with a law in the colonial era that is rarely used. Thaham referred to the soccer players in Idorian Franch who have double nationalities and play for French clubs and the Idori national team.

“I don’t think anyone in Côte d’Ivoire believes this is not a state of government that exploits the legal system,” he said, referring to his removal on the basis of nationality. “This government was in power 15 years ago,” said

Al -Jazeera contacted the IVF government to comment, but it did not hear at the time of publication.

Away from the identity policy

A day after the Al -Thiam Ansar in Abidjan, the members of the Hotra Doctors for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) gathered in Yubujun, which is the most populated Abidjan suburb.

Reading signs “In Yopougon, our hero is Ado”, referring to the title of President, which was extended through a stage by the party’s leading members of Ouattara. The gathering placed the theater in front of the party’s large Congress on June 21-22, where Oouattra is expected to officially announce its candidacy.

“There is only one road – President Wattara Road.”

It is rumored that Outtara, 83, is half Burkinabi. It was a target of the policy of inflammatory identity for years, as his competitors were skeptical of “Ivoirite” and the imposition of unqualified laws from running. When he finally won the elections in 2011, GBAGBO refused to hand over power, which led to a civil war that killed some 3000 people.

Ouattara has since amended the Ivorian constitution to allow presidential candidates with the Ivorian father at least in the 2016 referendum. The country has sponsored the edge of the abyss to a prosperous economy, clear in the average annual growth of 7 percent registered in the past decade.

Then in 2020, Utara ran and won the elections. Critics and boycott of the opposition said unconstitutional While Utara argued that his mandate was re -set through the new constitution. Violence was reported in some areas.

N’Guessan said that the Idorians do not have appetite for the tremendous suffering of 2011, and warned that reviving the identity policy by preventing running again is a “dangerous” matter.

“We must learn lessons to address the issue of nationality with a little more perspective,” he said. “The same words produce the same effects, the same evils.”