His party wants him to run, but the President of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, has decided to reserve his decision to seek a third mandate for now.
Without surprise, the president’s RHDP party officially nominated him as a candidate during a convention in Abidjan on Wednesday.
In March, Ouattara, 76, said he would not run again, to give way to the next generation.
But everything changed with the death of his prime…