US EditionSimone Gbagbo: Ivory Coast's Ex-First Lady Cleared to Contest Presidential Election
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In Côte d'Ivoire, the Constitutional Council selected five candidates for the presidential election of 25 October 2025: among these candidates were outgoing President Alassane Ouattara, who was running for a fourth term, that of Jean-Louis Billon, or Simone Ehivet Gbagbo. On the other hand, the Constitutional Council rejected the candidatures of the two main opposition parties.
The candidateship of Simone Gbagbo, 76, is the most recent surprise on the list of five officially approved presidential candidates, announced to BBC. According to the BBC, for Simone Gbagbo, its candidate is not only politically significant, but symbolicly important in a country where women continue to be widely represented in national leadership. Only 30% of the parliamentarians in Côte d'Ivoire are women, and few have been in charge of leader…
Ivory Coast: Former First Lady Cleared To Contest Presidential Election
By Enyichukwu Enemanna The Constitutional Court has cleared Ivory Coast’s former First Lady Simone Gbagbo to contest in the October presidential election, a surprise inclusion that adds her to the list of five candidates who have officially received the nod to be in the race. Simone, 76 will not slug it out with President Alassane Ouattara, 83, who took power after she and her former husband, Laurent Gbagbo, were forced out of power after the 20…
Surprise as Ivory Coast ex-first lady cleared to contest presidency - Kahawatungu
Ivory Coast’s former First Lady Simone Gbagbo, 76, is the surprise inclusion in a list of five candidates who have been officially cleared to contest next month’s presidential election. She will run against President Alassane Ouattara, 83, who took power after she and her former husband, Laurent Gbagbo, were captured in a presidential bunker during the conflict that hit the country after the 2010 election. But the ex-president has been barred fr…
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, Bouaké, 7 August 2025. ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP At a month and a half of the presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire, the election seems to be played ahead of the publication by the Constitutional Council on Monday, 8 September, of the final list of the five candidates selected for the 25 October election – out of the 60 who had submitted a dossier. Unsurprisingly, the country's highest court validated the candidac…
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