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On 11 April , 5 months after he had been defeated in a UN-supervised election, Laurent Gbagbo, the former leader of Cote d'Ivoire..
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Laurent Gbagbo
President of Côte d'Ivoire from to
Koudou Laurent Gbagbo[note 2][3] (Gagnoa Bété: Gbagbo[ɡ͡baɡ͡bo]; French pronunciation:[loʁɑ̃baɡbo]; born 31 May ) is an Ivorian politician who was the president of Côte d'Ivoire from until his arrest in April A historian, Gbagbo was imprisoned in the early s and again in the early s, and he lived in exile in France during much of the s as a result of his union activism.
Gbagbo founded the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) in and ran unsuccessfully for president against Félix Houphouët-Boigny at the start of multi-party politics in He won a seat in the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire in
Gbagbo claimed victory after Robert Guéï, head of a military junta, barred other leading politicians from running in the October presidential election.
The Ivorian people took to the streets, toppling Guéï. Gbagbo was then installed as president.
In the presidential election, Alassane Ouattara defeated Gbagbo, and