The politics of Ivory Coast takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic,whereby the President of Ivory Coast is both head of state and head of government,and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the President and the Government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament.
Koudou Laurent Gbagbo is an Ivorian politician who was the president of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. A historian,Gbagbo was imprisoned in the early 1970s and again in the early 1990s,and he lived in exile in France during much of the 1980s as a result of his union activism. Gbagbo founded the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) in 1982 and ran unsuccessfully for president against Félix Houphouët-Boigny at the start of multi-party politics in 1990. He won a seat in the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire in 1990.
The Democratic Party of Ivory Coast –African Democratic Rally is a centre-right political party in Ivory Coast.
AiméHenri Konan Bédié was an Ivorian politician. He was President of Côte d'Ivoire from 1993 to 1999,and formerly President of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast –African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA). Prior to becoming president,he was a member and president of the National Assembly of Ivory Coast. He unsuccessfully sought another term as president in the 2020 presidential election.
The Rally of the Republicans is a liberal party in Ivory Coast. The party is the country's governing party;the party's leader,Alassane Ouattara,is the current President of Ivory Coast.
The First Ivorian Civil War was a civil conflict in the Ivory Coast that began with a military rebellion on 19 September 2002 and ended with a peace agreement on 4 March 2007. The conflict pitted the government of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo against a domestic insurgency led by the New Forces of Ivory Coast. Following the war,a second civil war (2010–2011) would begin over the results of the 2010 Ivorian presidential election.
Alassane Dramane Ouattara is an Ivorian politician and economist who has been President of Ivory Coast since 2010. An economist by profession,he worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Central Bank of West African States,and was the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993,appointed to that post by then-President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Ouattara became the president of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR),an Ivorian political party,in 1999.
Francis Vangah Romain Wodié was an Ivorian politician,jurist,and human rights activist. He led the Ivorian Workers' Party (PIT) from 1990 to 2011. During that time,Wodiéserved as a Deputy in the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire from 1990 to 1995 and as Minister of Higher Education from 1998 to 1999. He was President of the Constitutional Council of Côte d'Ivoire from 2011 to 2015.
Daniel Kablan Duncan is an Ivorian politician. He previously served as Prime Minister of Ivory Coast from 11 December 1993 to 24 December 1999 and again from November 2012 to January 2017. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from June 2011 to November 2012. He was also the first Vice President of Ivory Coast,after the recreation of this office,from January 2017 until 13 July 2020.
Presidential elections were held in Ivory Coast in 2010. The first round was held on 31 October,and a second round,in which President Laurent Gbagbo faced opposition leader Alassane Ouattara,was held on 28 November 2010. Originally scheduled to be held in 2005,the vote was delayed several times due to the Ivorian Civil War and difficulties involved in the organization and preparation of the elections. A peace agreement between the government and the former rebel New Forces was signed on 4 March 2007,and in late April 2009,it was announced that the elections would be held by 6 December 2009,and that the date would be announced shortly. On 15 May 2009,the date was announced to be 29 November 2009. On 11 November,the elections were postponed again due to delays in the electoral roll. It was announced on 3 December 2009 to be held in late February or early March 2010.
Patrick Jérôme Achi is an Ivorian politician who served as Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from March 2021 to October 2023 in President Alassane Ouattara's government. He is a member of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR). He studied at Supélec and Stanford University and specialises in engineering and infrastructure. He has also worked as the government spokesman for President Alassane Ouattara.
The 1999 Ivorian coup d'état took place on 24 December 1999. It was the first coup d'état since the independence of Ivory Coast and led to the President Henri Konan Bédiébeing deposed.
Presidential elections were held in Ivory Coast on 31 October 2020. Incumbent president Alassane Ouattara was re-elected with 95% of the vote amidst an opposition boycott.
Dagobert Banzio was an Ivorian politician,government minister,and member of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire –African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA).
Canada and Ivory Coast established diplomatic relations in 1962. In addition to their bilateral relations,both nations are members of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.
Events in the year 2020 in Ivory Coast.
Michel Gondi Gueu is an Ivorian politician and army general (2S).
Kouadio Konan Bertin,known as KKB,is an Ivorian politician. He represented Port-Bouët in the National Assembly from 2011 to 2016.
This period in the history of Ivory Coast was affected by the end of the 33-year reign of Félix Houphouët-Boigny in 1993,as well as demographic change which had seen the Muslim population rise from 6% in 1922 to 38.6% in 1998,including a majority in the north of the country.
Martine Aya Djibo was an Ivorian educator and politician who served in the National Assembly from 1975 until 1980 and from 1990 until 2010. Although initially a member of the PDCI-RDA party,she defected in 2004 and founded the Party for the Unity of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire,citing frustrations with the party amid the First Ivorian Civil War.
