Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

The old mainstream politicians - Alassane Dramane Ouattara and ex-President Henri Konan Bédié - have been marginalised by the Gbagbo-Soro pact but are sceptical about its success...

Its members are with Soro and Gbagbo: peace-broker Blaise Campaoré (who now faces the indignity of having his personal assets investigated for signs of corrupt enrichment in France) President of Burkina Faso; Henri Konan Bédié PDCI leader and Ivorian former President (1993-99); Alassane Dramane Ouattara Prime Minister 1990-93 head of the Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) and bête noire of Gbagbo's Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI)...

Most are northern Ivorians who back former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara and have been refused identity papers - or had them confiscated...

North-south tensions became personalised in the face-off between Bédié from the south-west and Houphouët's former Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara ('ADO') who is both northern and Muslim and a former International Monetary Fund Deputy Managing Director...

Gbagbo's inadequate concessions include acknowledging Alassane Dramane Ouattara head of the Rassemblement des Républicains as a presidential candidate...

Their ethnic background is mixed but few are from the north whose people are suspected of loyalty to the rebels and to the opposition leader former Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara...

Bédié's Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) hostile to Muslim northerners and their leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara kept a cautious silence...

Most Muslims northerners or immigrants support Alassane Ouattara...

Séka Séka is linked to another security firm Omeifra by the daily Ouest-France and the Ivorian Patriote which speaks for Gbagbo's main opponent ex-Premier Alassane Ouattara...

His two main opponents former President Henri Konan Bédié and ex-Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara are in Paris working on joint strategy in the 'G7' opposition alliance that aims to force out Gbagbo...

Due to attend are President Laurent Gbagbo opposition leader Alassane Ouattara former President Henri Konan Bédié and Guillaume Soro leader of the ex-rebel Forces Nouvelles...