Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo vowed on Sunday to continue in politics 'until my death' as he launched a new party following his acquittal by the International Criminal Court and return from a decade abroad.
The creation of the new party, called the African People's Party - Cote d'Ivoire" , has fuelled speculation he intends to run in the 2025 presidential election. He declined to provide a definitive answer to that question on Sunday.
The PPA-CI held its first congress before thousands of supporters who packed into a hotel ballroom at the weekend in the commercial capital Abidjan. At the same time, he suggested it was time for "the elders" to retire from active electoral politics, a reference to himself as well as to the current president, Alassane Ouattara, who defeated him in 2010, and former President Henri Konan Bedie.
Ouattara ran for and won a third term last year after the candidate he had designated to succeed him suddenly died.
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