https://allafrica.com/stories/202510240400.html
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A total of five candidates are running. Controversy has arisen over the exclusion of former President Laurent Gbagbo and Tidjane Thiam (see Fides, 4/10/2025), as well as the fourth candidacy of outgoing President Alassane Ouattara. The other four candidates are Jean-Louis Billon, former Minister of Trade, who is running as the candidate of a coalition of opposition parties, the Democratic Congress (CODE); Ahoua Don Mello, a former ally of Gbagbo and his ex-wife, Simone Ehivet Gbagbo, candidate of the Mouvement des Générations Capables (MGC), a party she founded; and Henriette Lagou Adjoua, another former ally of Gbagbo.."
