Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

The Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) Alassane Ouattara's Rassemblement des Républicains the Union pour la Démocratie et la Paix en Côte d'Ivoire of followers of late military leader General Robert Gueï and Anaky Kobenan's Mouvement des Forces de l'Avenir plan an alliance of Houphouëtistes claiming the mantle of founding President Félix Houphouët-Boigny whose autocratic rule is now recalled as an era of unity prosperity and ethnic tolerance...

According to the timetable agreed in Accra Article 35 of the constitution which deals with eligibility for the presidency should be amended by 30 September to enable opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara to run for president next year...

In this climate it will shortly fall to Justice Minister Henriette Diabaté the RDR Secretary General to introduce the amendment to Article 35 which was put into the constitution specifically to stop Alassane Ouattara her party leader from running for president...

As well as his hotline to the Elysée Gbagbo and his Front Populaire Ivoirien are suspicious of Bongo's links to opposition leader Alassane Ouattara who flew to Gabon in November 2002 after ten weeks in the sanctuary of Abidjan's French embassy...

Rather than declaring an internationally unrecognised mini-state Soro would rather fight nationwide elections alongside Alassane Dramane Ouattara's RDR and pursue his political ambitions on a national level...

The former Directeur de Cabinet of Ivorian ex-Premier-turned-opposition-leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara Touré represents at 59 a younger generation than President Lansana Conté and his veteran opponents Alpha Condé (66) and Bâ (71)...

With or without constitutional reform confrontation is inevitable sooner or later over whether RDR leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara should be allowed to stand in the presidential election...

He has since fallen out with both opposition leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara's Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) and the main rebel Mouvement Patriotique de la Côte d'Ivoire (MPCI)...

The association of traditional chiefs of northern Côte d'Ivoire which is led by Alassane Ouattara's elder brother Gaoussou Dramane Ouattara wrote to French President Jacques Chirac saying IB was the victim of a 'cabal'...

IB's relations with Ivorian opposition leader Alassane Ouattara have deteriorated and he is said to be jealous of Guillaume Soro head of the Mouvement Patriotique de la Côte d'Ivoire for taking the mantle he feels is rightly his...

His supporters compare him to Côte d'Ivoire's opposition politician Alassane Dramane Ouattara who also lives in exile excluded from elections and accused of being foreign...

The row sets the FPI against the country's other political parties in an interesting realignment: only weeks ago everyone was united against Alassane Ouattara's main opposition Rassemblement des Républicains...