Former Ivorian Prime Minister Pascal Affi N’Guessan was named the candidate for the Popular Ivorian Front (FPI) in the upcoming 2025 presidential election on Saturday.
At a congress held in Yamoussoukro, the political capital of Ivory Coast, N’Guessan was re-elected president of the FPI with an overwhelming 99.34% of the vote from approximately 4,500 delegates.
The FPI is the party of former President Laurent Gbagbo, and N’Guessan assumed its leadership during Gbagbo’s trial at The Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
N’Guessan previously ran for president in both 2015 and 2020, losing to incumbent Alassane Ouattara in both elections. In 2020, he rejected the election results and was briefly arrested on charges of attempting to establish a “parallel government.”
Among his key policy proposals are the abolition of the Senate and the restoration of presidential term limits.
Ouattara, who won a controversial third term in 2020, has not yet announced whether he plans to seek re-election for a fourth term.