The PDCI-RDA (opposition) candidate for the Ivorian presidential election on October 31, 2020 is Henri Konan Bédié. He was nominated on Monday July 27 by his party in an election in which he was the only candidate.
At 86 years old Henri Konan Bédié (HKB), whose only candidacy was validated before the vote, wins hands down the paths of the members of his party to be their candidate next October during the presidential election.
HKB was invested as a candidate with 99.7% of the votes at the end of his party’s convention held this Monday in Abidjan. Immediately he triumphantly declared to the press that these “provisional results highlight my election with a score of 99.7%. It is a real plebiscite, the joy that animates me on this day is immense. I am happy and proud to have been elected as a candidate of the PDCI”.
According to the official statement of the PDCI-RDA read by François Roland Adiko, executive secretary in charge of the elections within this party, these are 9,400 militants who were called both on the national territory and abroad (and) who took part in this vote for the nomination of the PDCI-RDA candidate for the next presidential election in Ivory Coast.
At the national level, 114 localities took part in these conventions through 351 offices. There were 12 offices in Africa, 8 offices in Europe and 13 in North America, with a participation rate of 94.8% at the end of these agreements.
HKB, the oldest candidate, will have to convince voters that at 86 he is not too old to lead the Ivory Coast. And if incumbent President Alassane Ouattara runs for office, Bédié’s task may be a little more complicated.
At the end of 2019, Alassane Ouattara clarified: “The Ivory Coast must continue to move forward, but not with just anyone. We have seen what others have done in the past. We no longer want to go back, we no longer want hijackings.”
Our fellow citizens have memories (…). I want all of my generation to understand that our time has passed. But if they are candidates, I will be. In simpler terms that gives, Ouattara will be a candidate if notably President Henri Konan Bédié and Laurent Gbagbo, of the same generation as him are.
Now that Bédié is officially a candidate, what will Ouattara do? Will he introduce himself? Everything suggests so, especially since the nominated candidate in his camp Amadou Gon Coulibaly died suddenly of a heart attack on Wednesday July 08, 2020. And recently, everywhere in Ivory Coast, calls for Ouattara serving a third term are increasing.
After the death of Gon Coulibaly and Konan Bédié being a candidate, what will Ouattara do? His party the RHDP (in power) is holding an extraordinary conclave… to nominate its candidate.
In the immediate future, the Ivorian presidential election records four official candidatures, those of Marcel Amon Tanoh (former Minister of Foreign Affairs), the former president of the National Assembly and former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro (GPS, opposition), the ex-president of the National Assembly Mamadou Koulibaly (Lider, opposition) and ex-president Henri Konan Bédié (PDCI, opposition); while waiting for the RHDP candidate (in power).
Reference: https://www.france24.com/fr/20200727
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