Côte d’Ivoire: presidential candidacies, ethnopolitical stability
- November 15, 2018
- - 4:01 pm
Summary The Ivoirian opposition party the Rassemblement pour la Côte d’Ivoire (RACI) will convene an extraordinary congress on November 18 and possibly nominate Speaker of the National Assembly Guillaume Soro its presidential candidate for elections due in 2020. If he accepts, Soro would become the first senior Ivoirian figure to declare for the Côte d’Ivoire presidency. An otherwise absence of declared rivals as well as inflammatory ethnopolitical rhetoric may signal Côte d’Ivoire’s political leadership across ruling and oppositional parties are approaching 2020 to prevent a regression to national instability. Analysis The Ivoirian opposition party the Rassemblement pour la Côte d’Ivoire …
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