According to those close to them, the one-hour tête-à-tête between Alassane Ouattara (ADO) and Laurent Gbagbo was friendly and cordial. “It was like a brotherly reunion,” says someone close to the head of state. The two men, who had previously been very suspicious of each other, both felt that their meeting had gone very well.
Also in attendance were Fidèle Sarassoro, ADO’s chief of staff, Ibrahim Cissé Bacongo, the President’s new special adviser on political affairs, Adama Bictogo, executive-director of the Rassemblement des Houphouëtistes pour la Démocratie et la Paix (RHDP), Assoa Adou, secretary-general of the dissident branch of the Front Populaire Ivoirien (FPI), Hubert Oulaye, one of the FPI’s leaders, and finally Georges Armand Ouégnin, president of the political platform Ensemble pour la Démocratie et la Souveraineté (EDS).
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