Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO)

His Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI) was founded in 1988 and he contrived to make it a member of the Socialist International despite its platform of xenophobia against incomers from the north of the country such as Alassane Dramane Ouattara (ADO) by making his tribal rhetoric sound like patriotism...

The authorities now talk of reconciliation but until recently they favoured their own citizens to the point of banning former Premier Alassane Dramane Ouattara from standing for President in previous claiming he was Burkinabè...

The main opposition still comes from Alassane Dramane Ouattara’s northern Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR)...

Whether the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo the northern leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara or the leader of the former single party the Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire Henri Konan Bédié wins China is keen to show that it will be a faithful friend...

Gbagbo's supporters still blame Alassane Dramane Ouattara the RDR leader and former Prime Minister for the September 2002 crisis saying it was his plans to hand over the country to immigrants that caused the conflict...

Alassane Dramane Ouattara 66 was an International Monetary Fund economist before turning to politics and serving as Prime Minister from 1990-93...

An election this year would involve the leaders of the big three parties: former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara of the Rassemblement des Républicains; former President Henri Konan Bédié of the Parti Démocratique de la Côte d’Ivoire; and Gbagbo...

The old mainstream politicians - Alassane Dramane Ouattara and ex-President Henri Konan Bédié - have been marginalised by the Gbagbo-Soro pact but are sceptical about its success...

Its members are with Soro and Gbagbo: peace-broker Blaise Campaoré (who now faces the indignity of having his personal assets investigated for signs of corrupt enrichment in France) President of Burkina Faso; Henri Konan Bédié PDCI leader and Ivorian former President (1993-99); Alassane Dramane Ouattara Prime Minister 1990-93 head of the Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR) and bête noire of Gbagbo's Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI)...

Most are northern Ivorians who back former Prime Minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara and have been refused identity papers - or had them confiscated...