Robert Guéï

Having declined a post in General Robert Gueï's junta Thiam left Côte d'Ivoire for Europe working as chief executive for Prudential and then Credit Suisse...

The Union pour la démocratie et la paix en Côte d'Ivoire an outgrowth of the late General Robert Gueï's 1999-2000 military regime lives on around the figure of Albert Mabri Toikeusse with its support base in the north-western region of Man...

There are also uneasy parallels with elections in 2000 held by junta leader Robert Guéï that excluded Ouattara and Henri Konan Bédié the President ousted the previous year...

Some soldiers were part of the 1999 mutiny the country's first coup d'état under the late General Robert Gueï...

However this call from the elder statesman who has never fully recovered from his brutal removal from power by the late General Robert Gueï's coup d'état in 1999 provoked a wave of discontent within his party...

A PDCI candidate would fatally weaken Ouattara's position even when another RHDP partner the Union pour la démocratie et la paix en Côte d'Ivoire set up by by the 1999 coup leader the late General Robert Gueï has declared its support securing votes for Ouattara in its western stronghold of Man...

Finally there is the Union pour la démocratie et la paix en Côte d’Ivoire (UPDCI) a party connected to yet another ex-head of state the late General Robert Gueï who staged the country’s first military coup in 1999...

It brings together the RDR and PDCI with the Mouvement des Forces d’Avenir (MFA) led by Innocent Anaky Kobena and the Union pour la Démocratie et la Paix en Côte d’Ivoire (UPDCI) led by Albert Mabri Toikeusse and loyal to the memory of the late military ruler Robert Gueï as well as Francis Wodié’s Parti Ivoirien des Travailleurs...

Few trust him yet Gbagbo once persuaded the late President Robert Guéi to allow him to run in the presidential race of 2000 'for the look of it' to make the poll look credible - and then won...

Veteran leftist Francis Wodié's Parti Ivoirien des Travailleurs and the Union pour la Démocratie et la Paix en Côte d'Ivoire of the late General Robert Gueï now led by Albert Toikeusse Mabri may have a role as power-brokers in the event of a second-round vote...