Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo and Tidjane Thiam’s parties form a united opposition front

The two opposition parties excluded from the forthcoming presidential election in Ivory Coast have formed an alliance demanding to be allowed to participate in the polls.

The alliance aims to demand that its leaders, Laurent Gbagbo and Tidjane Thiam, be allowed to run in the next presidential election and that other opposition candidates be removed from the electoral lists. It mainly pits the PPA-CI and PDCI parties.

The creation of this…