Ivorian Popular Front

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The Ivorian Popular Front (Template:Langx; abbr. FPI) is a centre-left, democratic socialist and social democratic political party in Ivory Coast.

History

FPI was founded in exile in 1982 by history professor Laurent Gbagbo, Aboudramane Sangaré, and other allies during the one-party rule of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.[1] Politically inspired by the French Socialist Party, the FPI was until 2011 a full member of the Socialist International (SI).[2][3] The expulsion of the FPI from the SI occurred as a result of the 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis.

Gbagbo was sworn in as President after the heavily disputed presidential election of October 22, 2000. In the parliamentary election held on 10 December 2000 and 14 January 2001, the party won 96 out of 225 seats.

The party president is Pascal Affi N'Guessan, a former prime minister. Following Gbagbo's election as President, he was required to step down as party leader, and N'Guessan was elected to head the party at its Third Extraordinary Congress in July 2001.[4]

The Ivorian Popular Front boycotted the 2011 parliamentary election,[5] accusing the electoral commission of bias in favour of Alassane Ouattara and accusing the army of intimidating FPI supporters during the campaign.[6] The party also complained of having been limited in informing the electorate, with the pro-FPI newspaper Script error: No such module "Lang". having been banned by the government and many of its journalists arrested or jailed.[7]

On 8 August 2015, N'Guessan was designated as the FPI's presidential candidate for the October 2015 presidential election. He denounced the incarceration of Gbagbo by the International Criminal Court and political conditions under Ouattara: "Peace isn't only the silence of weapons. Can we say that Ivory Coast is in peace when President Gbagbo is in The Hague? With hundreds of political prisoners in jail, Ivory Coast is not in peace." Some hardliners in the FPI did not want to participate in elections as long as Gbagbo remained imprisoned, but others felt the party needed to remain engaged in the electoral process.[8]

In the December 2016 parliamentary election, only three FPI candidates, including N'Guessan, were elected to the National Assembly.[9]

On December 23, 2020, the FPI said it would participate in the 2021 Ivorian parliamentary election.[10]

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election Party candidate Votes % Votes % Results
First Round Second Round
1990 Laurent Gbagbo 548,441 18.32% - - Lost Red XN
1995 Boycotted
2000 Laurent Gbagbo 1,065,597 59.4% - - Elected Green tickY
2010 Laurent Gbagbo 1,756,504 38.04% 2,054,537 (CC) 51.45% (CC) Elected Green tickY
2,107,055 (IEC) 45.9% (IEC)
2015 Pascal Affi N'Guessan 290,780 9.29% - - Lost Red XN

National Assembly elections

Election Party leader Votes % Seats +/–
1990 Laurent Gbagbo 365,999 19.8% Template:Composition bar Increase 9
1995 Template:Composition bar Increase 3
2000–01 Template:Composition bar Increase 84
2011 Pascal Affi N'Guessan Boycotted Template:Composition bar Decrease 96
2016 118,130 5.83% Template:Composition bar
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References

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  2. ↑ List of Socialist International parties.
  3. ↑ SI Presidium addresses situation in Côte d'Ivoire
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  8. ↑ "Gbagbo's FPI picks presidential hopeful after years of boycotts", Reuters, 8 August 2015.
  9. ↑ Template:Usurped, Independent Electoral Commission, page 21.
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