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The new "unified party" of the Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) was launched on Monday in Côte d'Ivoire, led by Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara at two years of age of the next presidential election.
"The constitutive general assembly" of the new movement was held in the afternoon in a large hotel in Abidjan. The delegates of several political parties and personalities in favor of the new unified party adopted "unanimously" the statutes after an hour of debate, and appointed unsurprisingly as leader Mr. Ouattara, who was the only candidate declared, according to a
In a second step, a "constituent congress" will ratify the creation of RHDP by the end of the year, according to a manager. Several thousand activists and young people were transported by coach for the occasion.
Launched a week after a cabinet reshuffle, the RHDP brings together the Rally of Republicans (RDR), the formation of President Ouattara, the Union for the democracy and peace in Ivory Coast (UDPCI – six deputies), chaired by Albert Toikeusse Mabri, and personalities from other parties
The Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI), one of the two parties of the ruling coalition, refused to join the RHDP, dissatisfied with the terms of the proposed alliance. He demanded as a prerequisite for the union that a personality from his ranks should be the sole candidate of the RHDP for the next presidential election. What the RDR refused, although the PDCI supported Ouattara in previous presidential polls of 2010 and 2015.
However a number of elected and executives of the PDCI have chosen to join the RHDP. A dozen of them were appointed ministers in the new cabinet.
Among the delegates present, we saw some green shirts bearing the PDCI symbol, despite the ban made by the President of the PDCI, Henri Konan Bédié.
"I want the gathering. We must continue discussions between the two presidents (Bédié and Ouattara). We do not want to fall back into violence, "Guy Kanga, secretary of a PDCI section in Bouaké, the second Ivorian city, told AFP, referring to the decade of political and military crisis in the 2000s. [19659002] Personalities claiming from three other small political parties also joined the RHDP: the Union for Ivory Coast (PUIC, 3 deputies), the Movement of Forces for the Future (MFA) and the Ivorian Workers' Party ( PIT).
– Confused Situation –
The situation is confusing for these three small parties. Their congresses spoke out against the union with the RHDP, but dissidences then appeared, with internal coup attempts, which are the subject of legal proceedings.
Maneuvers by the authorities, leaders of these parties, which is refuted by the RDR. Some of these "dissidents" have been appointed to the government.
"It is difficult to speak of a large unified party, since the RDR is left with satellite parties representing only a few percent of the electorate," said political scientist Sylvain N'Guessan, director of the Abidjan Institute of Strategy. "This is not what President Ouattara dreamed about. It has attracted decision-makers from the PDCI, but the basis of this party remains refractory. "
The RHDP" creates confusion in the Ivorian political arena. Can the RHDP exist without the PDCI? "Says Pierre Dagbo Gode, professor of political science at the University Felix Houphouet Boigny of Abidjan. "Under these conditions, no one can win the presidential election in the first round" in 2020.
Even if the opposition of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) is weakened and divided. Laurent Gbagbo, the historic leader of the third largest party in Côte d'Ivoire, is in jail and on trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, accused of crimes against humanity during the tragic post-election crisis of 2010-11. His party is now divided into two rival tendencies.
Another unknown for the political future of the country, the ambitions of Guillaume Soro, the RDR president of the National Assembly, who was absent at the high mass of the RHDP, for cause of displacement in Canada.
Reputed in cold with Alassane Ouattara, the ex-leader of the rebellion (2002-2011) and former Prime Minister, who is lined with presidential ambitions, placed himself in withdrawal for several months, with the goal of giving a posture of rallying. In a cryptic way, he said he was in favor of the RHDP, but without breaking with the PDCI.
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