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Thousands flood the streets as Ivory Coast’s Ouattara returns home
However, senior PDCI officials have begun calling for a review of the partnership. Maurice Kakou Guikahue, the PDCI’s deputy leader, last month announced a congress in October to pick a candidate. The PDCI’s doubts coincide with the reemergence of the country’s third major political formation, Gbagbo’s Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) party.
Though Gbagbo is awaiting trial on crimes against humanity in The Hague, the government last year released most FPI leaders from prison in a bid to encourage reconciliation. Last month, FPI President Pascal Affi N’Guessan held a series of rallies to mark its political return.
“If the RDR-PDCI alliance reaches a breaking point the question is what happens next, because in Ivory Coast it’s always a question of two against one,” said Rinaldo Depagne, West Africa project director for International Crisis Group.
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