Abidjan: Four major opposition figures in the Ivory Coast are excluded from the final election list, the authorities announced on Wednesday, leaving them unqualified to contest the presidential election later this year.The chief opposition party leader Tidzen Thiam, the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast (PDCI), was killed by a voter role in April, when the verdict was pronounced in a court following a court verdict on his Evorian nationality at the time of registration.Former President Laurent Gagbo, his former right-handed man Charles bleed Gode and former Prime Minister Gilliom Soro has been deported, has been stopped in the last sentences for years and has not been restored.None of the four will be able to run in the presidency or vote on October 25.The 83 -year -old President Alasen Autara, who has been in power since 2011, has been included in the Election Register, but has not yet announced whether he will seek a fourth term.In 2015 and 2020, OUATTARA won with more than 80 percent of the votes.Election Commission chief Ibrahim Kibirt Culibali announced on Monday that no amendment of the voter register would be done before the vote.Thiem said in a statement on Wednesday, “My elimination by the Election Commission by the Independent Election Commission is a tragic but clear example of the flow of the Ivory Coast for the total absence of democracy of Ivory Coast.”The former international banker, who has been away from the Ivory Coast for more than two months, has appealed to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, his party said.His lawyer Mathius Chichportich said in a statement sent to AFP that “depriving the opposition leader of his political rights” was “a serious violation of the international commitments of Ivory Coast”.For its share, Gabo’s African People’s Party-Ivier Coast (PPA-CI) complained that officials “did not choose to listen to advice, call for discussion, for reason”, for reason “, its general secretary Jean-Gavis Tchide told AFP.He said, “It’s ashamed that he chose to force his own way,” he said: “We are not going to do them so.”
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Other opposition figures that have announced that they will run for the presidency, depicted in the final election list.These include the former first female Simone Ehivate Gagbo, who spoke on behalf of an opposition coalition, saying that the conditions were not fulfilled for “peaceful, quiet elections”.Election Commission chief Kubirt Culibali has asked the court decisions to be “eradicated all disagreements” and to create an ivory coast “to create a state ruled by the rule of law”.Earlier, during the 2020 presidential election, an amendment of the election list was made before the October polling day in June.The final election register for this year’s ballot includes the names of 8.7 million voters, in a country with a high immigrants and where about half of the 30 million inhabitants are under 18.Officials deny any political intervention in the electoral process, saying that they respect the decisions made by an independent judiciary.
