{"id":198096,"date":"2025-05-14T18:45:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-thiam-resigns-as-president-of-the-opposition-pdci-party\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:45:37","slug":"cote-divoire-thiam-resigns-as-president-of-the-opposition-pdci-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-thiam-resigns-as-president-of-the-opposition-pdci-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Thiam Resigns as President of the Opposition PDCI Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Tidjane Thiam has announced his resignation as president of the Democratic Party of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire &#8211; African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA), due, in his words, to the &#8220;judicial harassment&#8221; he is facing, r<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.allafrica.com\/view\/group\/main\/main\/id\/00092739.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eports allAfrica.fr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The announcement was made in a video posted last night on social media, while a trial, in which a PDCI activist is questioning the legality of his election as party leader in December 2023, continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Thiam&#8217;s party held a Political Bureau meeting on Monday morning in Abidjan to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505130092.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 has announced his resignation as president of the Democratic Party of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire &#8211; African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA), due, in his words, to the &#8220;judicial harassment&#8221; he is facing, reports allAfrica.fr. The announcement was made in a video posted last night on social media, while a trial, in which a PDCI activist is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198097,"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\/00670274:a76c4db45e533e924147397ebda21da1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,1218,257,5675,7024,51351,2450,8623,254,51157],"class_list":["post-198096","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-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-party","tag-pdci","tag-president","tag-resigns","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thiam"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670274:a76c4db45e533e924147397ebda21da1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198096","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=198096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}