Former Ivorian first lady Simone Gbagbo formally launched her political party three years before the presidential election.
Simone Gbagbo has also become president of the MGC, Movement of capable generations. This is coming against the backdrop of the end of her partnership with her soon-to-be ex-husband Laurent Gbagbo, by who she stood during the ten years of his presidency and his judicial setbacks
After being appointed president of the MGC (Mouvement des générations capable) in Abidjan, Simone Gbagbo said “We are a party that has an ideal of building a reconciled Ivory Coast full of justice and equity.”
According tothe president of the MGC, her party vowed to fight discrimination, and defend loyalty, integrity and incorruptibility.
Laurent Gbagbo’s amnesty could still stop him from running as a candidate in the 2025 election. The couple Laurent and Simone Gbagbo were both condemned for their role in the post-election violence in 2010. Sentenced in 2015 in her country to 20 years in prison for “undermining state security,” she also benefited in 2018 from the amnesty law.
