In an interview with the TV5Monde channel, the former president of Côte d’Ivoire confirms that he is resolutely on the side of the opposition and is against a third term of Alassane Ouattara. He therefore asks all parties to negotiate to avoid what he calls the “disaster”.
as reported from Abidjan, Pierre Pinto
IN an interview with TV5Monde, Laurent Gbagbo explains why he decides to speak now, two days before this contested presidential election. “When I was acquitted, I was waiting to be in Côte d’Ivoire to speak,” he explains. But today, the date approaches October 31st. Quarrels bring us into a pit. If I am silent, it would not be responsible, “said the former president.
Laurent Gbagbo says he understands and shares the opponents’ anger towards the third period that Alassane Ouattara is seeking. “It is he who made the mistake because it is he who did not respect the Constitution,” adds the former head of state, who also declares: “I am determined on the side of resistance.”
“Alassane Ouattara really lacked elegance”
Laurent Gbagbo is not holding his own against the current Ivorian president. “For ten years, all progress on democracy has crumbled in the Ivory Coast,” he commented. “Alassane Ouattara really lacked elegance” when we talked about the passport affair that the Ivorian authorities are slow to issue to him.
But today, Laurent Gbagbo is calling for discussion to get out of the crisis in which Ivory Coast is sinking. “What awaits us is disaster. I do not agree to go hand in hand with the disaster, ”he said. “Creating peace does not mean coming together in a magma called ‘government of national unity,'” he warns.
“There is always time to talk,” Laurent Gbagbo finally declares. I would like to tell the Ivorians that in this struggle, which is being waged today around the third parliamentary term, I am resolutely on the side of the opposition to the exercise of the third parliamentary term “.
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