Pascal Affi N'Guessan

By comparison former President Henri Konan Bédié's Parti démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) has only four MPs while the arm of the Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) led by Pascal Affi N'Guessan has an even weaker presence in the chamber...

There is also the thorny matter of Pascal Affi N'Guessan who led his FPI faction into a series of electoral disasters but remains the officially recognised party president...

A year ago Gbagbo's FPI appeared irretrievably split between his hardline loyalists and the moderates led by Pascal Affi N'Guessan...

Others present included Affi N'guessan who leads part of what remains of former President Laurent Gbagbo's political vehicle the Front populaire ivoirien (FPI) which was decimated in the polls and leaders of smaller parties who have decided to jump the RHDP ship...

He first met Affi N'Guessan leader of the officially recognised FPI faction...

Among those present were the First Lady Togolese-born lawyer Sika Bella Kaboré (née Sika Bella Adjoavi) opposition leader Zephirin Diabré and the leader of the Front populaire ivoirien Pascal Affi N'Guessan...

Front populaire ivoirien leader Pascal Affi N'Guessan took one of only three seats for his party in the central area of Boungouanou...

Meanwhile the officially recognised FPI headed by Pascal Affi N'Guessan hopes to do better in November's parliamentary elections than the 9% its Chairman got in last year's presidential poll...

The leaders of each faction Aboudrahmane Sangaré and Pascal Affi N'Guessan are facing each other in court over who has rights to the party name and insignia...

Sangaré considers himself the only heir to Gbagbo's legacy and defends the hard 'Gbagbo or Nothing' line while Affi N'Guessan represents the side that wants to move on and re-establish the party as a viable political force...

Meanwhile the previously ruling Front populaire ivoirien (FPI) will either have to reinvent itself or find ways to mend fences between its two factions one behind ex-President Laurent Gbagbo another following the official leader Pascal Affi N'Guessan...