Alassane Ouattara’s opponent in the presidential election in October last year, KKB alias Kouadio Konan Bertin, was appointed reconciliation minister on Tuesday, December 15. A ministry whose creation had been announced the day before by Alassane Ouattara during his oath for a third term as president of Côte d’Ivoire.
Announced by Alassane Ouattara during his tar edOn Monday, December 14, the Ministry of National Reconciliation will have seen the light of day the next day. And it was entrusted to KKB, Kouadio Konan Bertin.
What will be its roadmap and scope for action? “This department will be responsible for evaluating our actions with a view to strengthening national cohesion and reconciliation,” he said. Alassane Ouattara on Monday. According to many observers, the failure of reconciliation after the crisis of 2010-2011 is one of the points that sin in the results of the first two periods of Alassane Ouattara.
Presidential candidate in October last year against the outgoing president, KKB won 1.99% of the vote. At age 51, the dissident from the PDCI (Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire) had run as an independent and had refused the boycott chosen by the rest of the opposition.
Will KKB be considered a conversation partner in the current context of political blockade by an opposition that often accuses it of having played Alassane Ouattara’s sparring partner in the presidential election? At the moment, it is at least Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko who has been instructed to resume discussions with the opposition with a view to legislative expected by March 2021.
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