{"id":42340,"date":"2025-04-22T22:55:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42340"},"modified":"2025-04-23T22:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:57:06","slug":"ivory-coast-court-strikes-thiams-name-off-electoral-roll-over-french-nationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/ivory-coast-court-strikes-thiams-name-off-electoral-roll-over-french-nationality\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast court strikes Thiam&#8217;s name off electoral roll over French nationality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABIDJAN, April 22 (Reuters) &#8211; A court in Ivory Coast ruled on Tuesday that opposition leader and former Credit Suisse Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam should be removed from the electoral roll because he was a French national when he registered, his lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, which cannot be appealed, could end the Ivorian-born Thiam&#8217;s ambition to run in the world&#8217;s top cocoa-producing nation&#8217;s presidential election, expected in October.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/ex-banker-thiam-removed-ivory-coasts-electoral-roll-court-decision-shows-2025-04-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/ex-banker-thiam-removed-ivory-coasts-electoral-roll-court-decision-shows-2025-04-22\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABIDJAN, April 22 (Reuters) &#8211; A court in Ivory Coast ruled on Tuesday that opposition leader and former Credit Suisse Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam should be removed from the electoral roll because he was a French national when he registered, his lawyer said. The decision, which cannot be appealed, could end the Ivorian-born Thiam&#8217;s ambition [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-cote-divoire","type-news-articles","item-year-698","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42341,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42340\/revisions\/42341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}