{"id":42605,"date":"2025-09-01T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42605"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:36:31","slug":"car-opposition-leader-relinquishes-french-passport-to-run-in-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/car-opposition-leader-relinquishes-french-passport-to-run-in-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"CAR opposition leader relinquishes French passport to run in presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Central African Republic prime minister Anicet-Georges Dologuele announced on Monday that he has given up his French citizenship in order to run against long-time President Faustin Touadera in the December elections.<\/p>\n<p>Dologuele is set to once again challenge Touadera for leadership of the Russia-friendly country, among the world&#8217;s poorest nations and plagued by instability for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The economist by training came second to the president in the 2020 ballot, which was marred by unrest and accusations of voter fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Touadera&#8217;s critics accuse him of wishing to become the CAR&#8217;s president for life, especially after a change of constitution in 2023 allowed him to seek a third term and barred candidates holding multiple citizenships from running against him.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/africa\/20250901-car-opposition-leader-relinquishes-french-passport-to-run-in-presidential-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/africa\/20250901-car-opposition-leader-relinquishes-french-passport-to-run-in-presidential-race<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Central African Republic prime minister Anicet-Georges Dologuele announced on Monday that he has given up his French citizenship in order to run against long-time President Faustin Touadera in the December elections. Dologuele is set to once again challenge Touadera for leadership of the Russia-friendly country, among the world&#8217;s poorest nations and plagued by instability [&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-42605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-central-african-republic","type-news-articles","item-year-698","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42605","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=42605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42606,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42605\/revisions\/42606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}