Tidjane Thiam plans return as Ivory Coast’s opposition PDCI party leader

Ivory Coast’s opposition PDCI party has set up 45 polling stations across the country and in the diaspora to name a new leader

The move comes after Tidjane Thiam, elected its president in December 2023, was forced to resign due to his dual nationality.

Party statutes require its leader to be solely Ivorian. But Thiam was still a French citizen at the time of his election.

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