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According to his lawyer, Thiam has been removed from the Ivory Coast’s election register, Tidjan, the Chief Executive of the former Credit Suis, in a judgment that could finish his bid to become a presidential candidate in a vote in October.
Rodrig Dadji, a lawyer representing Thiam, says the first example is a court Ivory Coast The commercial capital, Abidjan, ruled that he should be closed because he was a French citizen when he was first registered.
The need for the state of West Africa needs someone who wants to contest the presidential election while in the election register.
The court verdict, which cannot be appealed, identifies a big push for the 62 -year -old leader of the opposition Democratic Party and his president.
In the October election, he expected President Alasan Outa’s ruling party, the most serious challenge for the Hufoutists rally for democracy and peace.
Thiam was born in Abidjan and earlier had dual French and Ivorian citizenship.
He quit his French citizenship in February in an attempt to meet the standard of being a candidate as a candidate in the Ivorian election.
He described the court verdict on Tuesday as “Democratic Vandalism” “designed to deprive millions of voters.”
Thiam said in a statement, “Ivorians are hoping to guarantee the judicial system a peaceful, transparent and credible election, not to increase power and to silence critics,” Thiam said in a statement.
Thiam also added that Outter’s team “by maintaining the impressions of the proper process” has been used to eradicate its most serious rivals.
Outara has been in power for 20 years and wins a Controversial third president After this argument in 2021, a constitutional amendment that was reset on the watch during his time during his time was adopted for six years.
The President has not yet announced whether he will contest the world’s largest coco producer in the October elections, but his top officials have called for him to stand.
Thiam won Lead Center-Right Democratic Party in 2023 and last week were officially renamed as its presidential candidate.
Thiam on Tuesday urged the international community to support Ivorian voters in search of their free and fair elections.
He also said that the party leaders of the Ivory Coast should be able to be able to be able to be a candidate in the presidential election throughout the political spectrum, citing a precedent that allowed Outa to contest the survey of the 27th even after the ban.
