After long denying that he held any political ambitions, despite numerous indications to the contrary in recent years, Tidjane Thiam, 61, made his candidacy for the presidency of the Parti Démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI), Côte d’Ivoire’s main opposition party, official on 17 November.
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