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African court requests ex-Ivorian president Gbagbos voting rights be restored

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Issued on: 26/09/2020 – 10:45

Ivory Coast should allow former president Laurent Gbagbo, who has been barred from running in next month's key presidential election, to vote in the poll, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights said Friday.

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The court, established by African Union members in 2004, asked Ivory Coast to "take all necessary steps to immediately remove all obstacles" preventing Gbagbo from being added to the electoral roll.

Ivory Coast withdrew its recognition of the court's jurisdiction in April this year.

Gbagbo, who was president from 2000 to 2010, is not on the electoral roll which was updated this year, and thus cannot vote or be a candidate in the October 31 election.

The Constitutional Council, Ivory Coast's top court, has rejected 40 of 44 applications to contest the election, which is taking place against a backdrop of extreme tension.

Those barred include Gbagbo, 75, and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro, 47, both of whom played key roles in the crisis that engulfed the country after disputed elections in 2010.

The Ivorian court, however, accepted an application by President Alassane Ouattara, 78, who is seeking a third term despite criticism that this sidesteps constitutional limits.

Gbagbo was freed conditionally by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague after he was cleared in January 2019 of crimes against humanity. He is living in Brussels pending the outcome of an appeal against the ICC ruling.

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His candidacy was rejected by the Constitutional Council on the grounds that he was handed a 20-year jail term by an Ivorian court last November over the looting of the local branch of the Central Bank of West African States during the post-election crisis.

The African Court, based in Arusha in Tanzania, also said Gbagbo's conviction should not be included on his judicial record until it had time to deliver a full judgement.

On September 15, the African Court handed down a verdict in Soro's favour, saying Ivory Coast should also "immediately remove all obstacles" preventing him from competing in the ballot.

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