Francis Wodié

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Romain Francis Wodié (born 25 February 1936 in Abidjan[1][2]) is an Ivoirian politician and the President of the Ivoirian Workers' Party (PIT).[3]

Wodié founded the PIT in 1990[2][3] and was the only candidate of his party to win a seat in the National Assembly in the November 1990 parliamentary election,[2][4] serving as a deputy from Cocody district in Abidjan until 1995.[2][3] As the only candidate standing against President Henri Konan Bédié in the October 1995 presidential election, which was boycotted by other opposition parties,[5][6] Wodié won 3.52% of the votes.[6] From 1998 to 1999, he served in the government as Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research.[1][3] Along with other ministers, he was detained following the military coup of December 24, 1999, but he was released on December 28.[7] In the October 2000 presidential election, Wodié placed third with 5.7% of the votes.[6]

Wodié was the First National Secretary of the PIT from the time of its Constitutive Congress until the party's 3rd Ordinary Congress in August 2004, when he was elected as its President.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b UN document on election of a member of the International Court of Justice, including Wodié's curriculum vitae as a candidate, 17 September 2001.
  2. ^ a b c d Candidate profile, abidjan.net (French).
  3. ^ a b c d e Page on Wodié and the history of the PIT on PIT website (French).
  4. ^ Robert J. Mundt, "Côte d'Ivoire: Continuity and Change in a Semi-Democracy", Political Reform in Francophone Africa (1997), ed. Clark and Gardinier, page 192.
  5. ^ Mundt, page 197.
  6. ^ a b c Elections in Côte d'Ivoire, African Elections Database.
  7. ^ "Cote d'Ivoire: Junta releases half-dozen ex-ministers", AFP, December 28, 1999.


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