With five months to the presidential election, the Coalition for a Peaceful Alternation (CAP), an alliance of Ivorian opposition parties, has called for political dialogue with the ruling Rally of the Republicans (RDR) and criticised President Alassane Ouattara’s possible fourth-term candidacy.

The coalition condemned the exclusion of several political figures from the electoral list, including Tidjane Thiam, former CEO of Credit Suisse and now president of both the coalition and the PDCI, the country’s main opposition party.

Thiam, in a video broadcast in Paris, called for electoral list revisions and warned against the misuse of the justice system.

Former First Lady Simone Gbagbo appealed to President Ouattara to enact an amnesty law to enable all political leaders, including those currently barred, to contest.

The opposition coalition, formed in March 2025, includes prominent figures such as Pascal Affi N’Guessan and Charles Blé Goudé, and accuses the Independent Electoral Commission of bias.

President Ouattara, in office since 2011, has served three terms; while his critics view a fourth term as unconstitutional, his allies argue that the 2016 constitutional reform allows it.

The presidential election is set for October 25, 2025.