Koudou Laurent Gbagbo is an Ivorian politician who was the president of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. He was the first president in the history of the country that was a centre-left politician. From Wikipedia
Legal exclusions under a 2016 constitutional change have cleared his path to the October vote, prompting opposition parties to demand the reinstatement of their barred candidates.
