The PDCI-RDA is polarizing attention some nine months before the presidential elections in Côte d'Ivoire. Tidjane Thiam, the president of this political party, is being attacked from all sides, even within his own political family.

Indeed, after the xenophobic remarks of the Minister Delegate Célestin Serey Doh on his Senegalese origins, it is the turn of some PDCI activists to take him to court with the aim of obtaining his dismissal "with immediate effect".

Did he apply for the position of president of the PDCI-RDA as a Frenchman or an Ivorian, or a Franco-Ivorian?

These party members, secretaries of the Yopougon, Dimbokro, Cocody and Bouaké sections, are relying on the statement made by Tidjane Thiam at the beginning of February, in which he announced that he had filed a request to renounce his French nationality; which will allow him to be exclusively of Ivorian nationality, as provided for in the country's constitution for candidates for the highest office.

The complainants want to know whether the former head of Crédit Suisse applied for the position of president of the PDCI-RDA as a Frenchman or an Ivorian, or simply as a Franco-Ivorian?

So that he may be dismissed

The international financier will have to answer these questions on Thursday, February 27, during a hearing at the Court of First Instance in Abidjan. For the 4 PDCI-RDA activists, if Mr. Thiam applied for the position of president of their party under the cover of dual nationality, "the Court therefore has no difficulty in pronouncing his ineligibility for this position; and in pronouncing his pure and simple dismissal from the position of president of the PDCI-RDA, for violation of article 41 paragraph 1 of the party statutes."