The Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire – African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA) has strongly condemned President Alassane Ouattara’s decision to run for a fourth term in the upcoming October 25, 2025, presidential election, calling it a blatant violation of the Ivorian Constitution.
In a statement signed by Simon Doho, special advisor to party leader Tidjane Thiam, the PDCI accused the president of undermining democratic principles and warned that his continued candidacy threatens national cohesion and institutional stability.
The PDCI cited Article 55 of the Constitution, which limits presidential mandates to two five-year terms, and recalled Ouattara’s 2020 pledge not to seek further re-election.
The party decried his previous third-term bid as unconstitutional and now sees his fourth-term announcement as a renewed breach of the country’s fundamental law.
While the Constitutional Council ruled in 2020 that the 2016 constitutional revision reset term limits, the PDCI insists that this latest move reflects an autocratic drift and disregards both legal and moral commitments.
