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Tidjane Thiam was re-elected as head of C\u00f4te d’Ivoire’s main opposition party on Wednesday, just days after resigning from the role – and despite being barred from running in the country’s presidential election. <\/em><\/p>\n Thiam had quit as leader of the Democratic Party of C\u00f4te d’Ivoire (PDCI<\/a>) on Sunday, but was the sole candidate when the party held an extraordinary congress on Wednesday to pick a new president.<\/p>\n “In the interest of the party, I’ve decided to place my mandate as president of the party…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Tidjane Thiam was re-elected as head of C\u00f4te d’Ivoire’s main opposition party on Wednesday, just days after resigning from the role – and despite being barred from running in the country’s presidential election. Thiam had quit as leader of the Democratic Party of C\u00f4te d’Ivoire (PDCI) on Sunday, but was the sole candidate when the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198166,"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":[258,256,7019,5958,6183,6555,6185,5959,6415,1218,8771,257,5675,7024,31728,7870,254],"class_list":["post-198165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-court","tag-divoire","tag-figure","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-leadership","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-party","tag-reclaims","tag-ruling","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/198165","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=198165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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