{"id":196320,"date":"2025-04-18T17:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cote-divoires-main-opposition-names-tidjane-thiam-presidential-candidate\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T17:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T15:51:20","slug":"cote-divoire-cote-divoires-main-opposition-names-tidjane-thiam-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cote-divoires-main-opposition-names-tidjane-thiam-presidential-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s Main Opposition Names Tidjane Thiam Presidential Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Tidjane Thiam, the former head of Credit Suisse, is set to run for president in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503180294.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">election<\/a>, his party has announced. Thiam ran unopposed in the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast&#8217;s primary after his only rival, former Trade Minister Jean-Louis Billon, withdrew from the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The 62-year-old gave up his French citizenship in February to qualify for the October election. Under the constitution, all presidential candidates must hold only Ivorian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Thiam has spent the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504180165.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tidjane Thiam, the former head of Credit Suisse, is set to run for president in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s upcoming election, his party has announced. Thiam ran unopposed in the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast&#8217;s primary after his only rival, former Trade Minister Jean-Louis Billon, withdrew from the race. The 62-year-old gave up his French citizenship in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661717:f6d3aea33b82f50b7313e28b2fd1c804:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,7997,5958,6183,6555,5959,10578,1218,9612,8650,257,5675,6438,254,51157,51156],"class_list":["post-196320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-candidate","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-divoires","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-main","tag-names","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thiam","tag-tidjane"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661717:f6d3aea33b82f50b7313e28b2fd1c804:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}