{"id":196694,"date":"2025-04-24T18:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cote-divoire-judge-rules-main-opponent-out-of-presidential-election\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T18:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:04:38","slug":"cote-divoire-cote-divoire-judge-rules-main-opponent-out-of-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cote-divoire-judge-rules-main-opponent-out-of-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Judge Rules Main Opponent Out of Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em> Tensions are rising in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire after a court ruled that opposition candidate Tidjane Thiam is not eligible to run in October&#8217;s presidential election because he lost his Ivorian nationality when he became a French citizen. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">An Abidjan court struck Thiam off the electoral list on Tuesday, just days after the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast (<a href=\"https:\/\/pdcirda.ci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDCI<\/a>), the main opposition party in the country, nominated him as its candidate for the 25 October election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The court said Thiam had been removed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504240299.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>Tensions are rising in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire after a court ruled that opposition candidate Tidjane Thiam is not eligible to run in October&#8217;s presidential election because he lost his Ivorian nationality when he became a French citizen. An Abidjan court struck Thiam off the electoral list on Tuesday, just days after the Democratic Party of Ivory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196695,"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\/00670057:e06ffe95b77e3edf73e38719a0fe9261:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,3119,1218,7511,9612,257,27850,6438,10967,254],"class_list":["post-196694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-election","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-judge","tag-main","tag-news","tag-opponent","tag-presidential","tag-rules","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670057:e06ffe95b77e3edf73e38719a0fe9261:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196694","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=196694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}