Henri Konan Bédié

The two former coalition partners – the mainly Muslim and northern Rassemblement des républicains (RDR) led by President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and the mainly southern once ruling Parti démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI) led by ex-President Henri Konan Bédié – have effectively split up the countries’ constituencies between them...

The PDCI is headed by ex-President Henri Konan Bédié the presidential candidate who came third in the election behind Ouattara and Gbagbo...

He currently has the blessing of Henri Konan Bédié’s Parti démocratique de la Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI) which was assigned Defence under the coalition agreement before the election but that may not last...

The political map remains regionally divided and the election will be decided by the supporters of Henri Konan Bédié who was knocked out in the first round having come third with 25...

Much will depend on what the supporters of the third running candidate former President Henri Konan Bédié choose to do: he won 25...

The reaction of opposition leader and former president Henri Konan Bédié of the Parti démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI) has been muted but former premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s Rassemblement des républicains (RDR) insists that the election date must be ‘definitive’ this time and that identity and polling cards must be distributed before the end of September...

Political activists of all tendencies are increasingly frustrated by the old guard of Laurent Gbagbo (65 years old) Henri Konan Bédié (76) and Alassane Dramane Ouattara (68)...

The big rival parties are the Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) led by Alassane Dramane Ouattara and including many northern Muslims and ex-President Henri Konan Bédié’s Parti Démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire solidly based among the mainly southern Akan-speakers especially the Baoulé...

Former President Henri Konan Bédié and former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) through the Rassemblement des Houphouëtistes pour la Démocratie et la Paix have agreed a mutual support pact in a hoped-for second round of voting...

Then the opposition Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire led by former President Henri Konan Bédié announced in July that it was forming a new militia...