Tidjane Thiam suffers from a major blow to presidential aspirations in Ivory Coast

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The former Credit Suisse Tidjane Thiam CEO was removed from the Ivory Coast’s electoral registry by a court, according to his lawyer, in a ruling that might end his attempt to run for the presidency in a vote in October.

Rodrigue Dadji, a lawyer who represents Tham, said the Court of First Instance in Ivory Coast Abidjan’s commercial capital should have ripened on the electoral list because he was a French citizen when he scored for the first time.

West Africa requires someone who wants to compete for the presidential elections in the electoral registry.

The uninterrupted court ruling is a major blow to the 62 -year -old leader of the opposition Democratic Party and its presidential aspirations.

It was expected that the most dangerous challenge for the ruling party of President Wattara, and the Huvoten Group for Democracy and Peace gathered in the October elections.

Thaham was born in Abidjan, and he previously kept the dual French and Idori nationality.

He abandoned his French nationality in February in an attempt to meet the eligibility standards to run as a presidential candidate in the IVF elections.

On Tuesday, the court’s ruling described as a “democratic” designer “to bear millions of voters.

“The Ivorians expect the judicial system to ensure peaceful, transparent and credible elections, not working as a tool for a system that seeks to store power and silence its critics,” Thiam said in a statement.

Thiam added that the Uatara party “used the courts to eliminate its most dangerous competitor, while preserving the illusion of legal procedures.” The official spokesperson for OUTATARA was contacted to comment.

Ouattara was in power since 2010 and won A third controversial presidential term In 2020, after saying that the constitutional amendment approved six years during his period of work, re -set the watch in his time.

The president has not yet announced whether he would run the October elections in the world’s largest cocoa producer, but senior officials in his party urged him to stand.

Than won Driving Among the Democratic Party in the center in 2023 was officially named its presidential candidate last week.

On Tuesday, Thiam called on the international community to support “Idorian voters in their endeavor to hold free and fair elections.”

He also said that the leaders of the Ivory Coast Party throughout the political spectrum should be united to enable him to run in the presidential elections, noting a precedent that allowed Outetara to compete for the 2010 poll despite its ban two previously.