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Ivorian President Albadane Ouattara made it clear on Monday that he would not run again in 2020 by launching a new umbrella party that he said would help ensure continuity.
Rally for Democracy and Peace (RHDP), currently the ruling coalition, in a formal party.
Named in the honor of the country's founder, the party held its constituent badembly Monday in a luxury hotel in Abidjan, the Ivorian economic capital. The new party brings together the Rally of Republicans (RDR) of Ouattara with the Union for Democracy and Peace (UDPCI), which has six deputies.
But a member of the coalition, the Democratic Party (PDCI), refused to pbad under the umbrella of the RHDP, having demanded that the party be a single candidate – of the Democratic Party. The RDR rejected the request, although the PDCI supported Ouattara in his 2010 and 2015 presidential elections.
However, some of the pillars of the PDCI agreed to join, including about a dozen. The ministers were appointed during a cabinet reshuffle last week.
Addressing the meeting on Monday, Ouattara made an appeal to PDCI leader Henri Konan Bédié: "We must stay together", recalling the victories during a post-election crisis in 2010-11.
Ouattara, 76, received a thunderous applause when he said, "We must work, President Bedie and me, to transfer power to a new generation by 2020".
The comments left rumors of Ouattara's desire to be re-elected despite a two-term limit under the Constitution.
Bedie, 84, and president of the former French colony from 1993 to 1999, did not reveal his intentions.
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