Vol 62 No 6 |
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As long as he is at the helm there is no hope of renewal which is why a host of younger politicians including the losing presidential candidate Kouadio Konan Bertin (known as KKB) have left (AC Vol 61 No 20 Ouattara leads in a perilous poll)...
Vol 61 No 20 |
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All contenders can tap into significant wells of support in various districts of the sprawling Abidjan conurbation with its 8 million or so inhabitants but Bédié could lose some of the younger PDCI electorate to his party's occasional dissident Kouadio Konan Bertin now running as an independent...
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Vol 59 No 3 |
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Its octogenarian leader ex-President Henri Konan Bédié has already managed to sideline the young talent in his own party – including bright stars like Kouadio Konan Bertin Jean-Louis Billon and Thierry Tanoh – but he is clear about one thing: the next presidential candidate preferably running under an RHDP flag will come from his party's ranks...
Vol 58 No 3 |
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Nor does PDCI dissenter Kouadio Konan Bertin who ran and lost as an independent in Port Bouët (AC Vol 57 No 9 Parties to many disputes)...
Vol 57 No 9 |
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PDCI former youth leader Kouadio Konan Bertin has also criticised the Daoukro Appeal and does not believe that the RDR will ever accept a PDCI person as RHDP contender in 2020...
Vol 57 No 1 |
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Symbols of a new generation of contenders include former youth leader and dissident Kouadio Konan Bertin Commerce Minister Jean-Louis Billon and former Ecobank boss Thierry Tanoh (AC Vol 55 No 6 Tanoh goes as Ecobank cleans house)...
Vol 56 No 22 |
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Third came Kouadio Konan Bertin the young dissident from the once-omnipotent Parti démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) who got just under 4% (AC Vol 56 No 2 Ouattara looks at second term)...
Vol 56 No 12 |
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After months of rumblings four leading figures parted company with Bédié in protest: former Foreign Minister Amara Essy; the ex-Prime Minister and former leader of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Charles Konan Banny; a former Vice-President of the National Assembly Jérôme Kablan Brou; and a former leader of the PDCI youth wing Kouadio Konan Bertin (AC Vol 56 No 2 Ouattara looks at second term)...
Vol 56 No 12 |
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Then there is Kouadio Konan Bertin ('KKB') 42 National Assembly member for the Parti démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire and the former leader of its youth wing...
Vol 56 No 2 |
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Konan Bédié backs ADO's candidacy but Kouadio Konan Bertin the focal point of the party's younger generation has declared his intention to stand (AC Vol 54 No 8 Boycotts and masks)...