Alassane Outtara [now backed by the West to replace Gbagbo] opened the meeting and introduced Pouchet. He spoke and said that he had come directly from Chirac with the message that "ADO (Ouattara) your son and brother will be President of the Republic of Côte d`Ivoire before the elections of 2005."

ADO appears to be an acronym for this man - ALASSANE OUTTARA - why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alassane_Ouattara

My G-d there is something wrong with his RIGHT EYE isn't there?

This is how ill cult slaves normally appear when they have been programmed i.e. tortured out of their minds and one hemisphere of their brain never fully recovered...meaning 'automaton' - the living dead...run as a remote-controlled robot.


Alassane Ouattara




President of Côte d'Ivoire
Disputed
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 December 2010
Prime Minister Guillaume Soro
Preceded by Laurent Gbagbo

Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast
In office
7 November 1990 – 9 December 1993
President Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Preceded by Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Succeeded by Daniel Kablan Duncan


Born 1 January 1942 (1942-01-01) (age 69)
Dimbokro, French West Africa (now Ivory Coast)
Political party Rally of the Republicans
Spouse(s) Dominique Ouattara
Alma mater Drexel University
University of Pennsylvania
Religion Islam

Alassane Dramane Ouattara (French pronunciation: [alasan wataʁa]; born 1 January 1942) is an Ivorian politician and a co-claimant to the office of President of Côte d'Ivoire; his election was recognized by major world leaders and the United Nations. He was Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993.[1][2] He is currently the President of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR), a party which has its support base in the north of the country, and was a candidate in the 2010 presidential election. Besides being a politician he is also a technocrat, trained as an economist and having worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO).

Contents [hide]
1 Career at financial institutions
2 Prime Minister
3 1995 election
4 President of the RDR
5 2010 presidential election
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Career at financial institutionsOuattara was born on January 1, 1942, in Dimbokro, French West Africa (now Côte d'Ivoire).[1][2] He received a bachelor's of science degree in 1965 from the Drexel Institute of Technology, which is now called Drexel University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] Ouattara then obtained both his master's degree in economics in 1967 and a doctorate in economics in 1972 from the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

He was an economist for the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.[2] from 1968 to 1973, and afterwards he was the BCEAO's Chargé de Mission in Paris from 1973 to 1975.[1][2] With the BCEAO, he was then Special Advisor to the Governor and Director of Research from February 1975 to December 1982 and Vice Governor from January 1983 to October 1984. From November 1984 to October 1988 he was Director of the African Department at the IMF, and in May 1987 he additionally became Counsellor to the Managing Director at the IMF.[2] On October 28, 1988 he was appointed as Governor of the BCEAO, and he was sworn in on December 22, 1988.[3]

[edit] Prime MinisterIn April 1990, Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny appointed Ouattara as Chairman of the Interministerial Committee for Coordination of the Stabilization and Economic Recovery Programme of Côte d'Ivoire; while holding that position, Ouattara also remained in his post as BCEAO Governor.[2] He subsequently became Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire on November 7, 1990,[2][3] after which Charles Konan Banny replaced him as Interim BCEAO Governor.[3]

While serving as Prime Minister, Ouattara also carried out presidential duties for a total of 18 months, including the period from March 1993 to December 1993, when Houphouët-Boigny was ill.[4] Houphouët-Boigny died on December 7, 1993, and Ouattara announced his death to the nation, saying that "Côte d'Ivoire is orphaned".[5][6] A brief power struggle ensued between Ouattara and Henri Konan Bédié, the President of the National Assembly, over the presidential succession; Bédié prevailed and Ouattara resigned as Prime Minister on December 9.[7] Ouattara then returned to the IMF as Deputy Managing Director, holding that post from July 1, 1994,[1][2] to July 31, 1999.[2]

[edit] 1995 electionPrior to the October 1995 presidential election, in a move that was viewed as being intended to prevent Ouattara's potential presidential candidacy, the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire approved an electoral code which barred candidates if either of their parents were of a foreign nationality and if they had not lived in Côte d'Ivoire for the preceding five years. The Rally of the Republicans (RDR), an opposition party formed as a split from the ruling Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) in 1994, sought for Ouattara to be its presidential candidate despite the electoral code. In late June 1995, RDR Secretary-General Djéni Kobina met with Ouattara, at which time, according to Kobina, Ouattara said "I'm ready to join you".[8] The party nominated Ouattara as its presidential candidate on July 3, 1995[9] at its first ordinary congress.[10] The government would not change the electoral code, however,[8] and Ouattara declined the nomination.[11][12] The RDR boycotted the election, along with the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) of Laurent Gbagbo, leaving the PDCI's candidate, incumbent president Henri Konan Bédié, to win an easy victory.[8]

[edit] President of the RDRWhile serving as Deputy Managing Director at the IMF, in March 1998 Ouattara expressed his intention to return to Côte d'Ivoire and take part in politics again.[13] After leaving the IMF in July 1999, he was elected President of the RDR on August 1, 1999 at an extraordinary congress of the party,[14] as well as being chosen as its candidate for the next presidential election.[15] He said that he was eligible to stand in the election, pointing to documents which he said demonstrated that he and his parents were of Ivorian birth. He was accused of forging these papers, however, and an investigation was begun.[16][17] President Bédié described Ouattara as a Burkinabe and said that Houphouët-Boigny "wanted Alassane Ouattara to concern himself only with the economy".[18] Ouattara's nationality certificate, issued in late September 1999,[19] was annulled by a court on October 27.[19][20] An arrest warrant for Ouattara was issued on November 29, although he was out of the country at the time; he nevertheless said that he would return by late December.[21] On December 24, the military seized power, ousting Bédié. Ouattara returned to Côte d'Ivoire after three months in France on December 29, hailing Bédié's ouster as "not a coup d'état", but "a revolution supported by all the Ivorian people".[22][23]

A new constitution, approved by referendum in July 2000, controversially barred presidential candidates unless both of their parents were Ivorian,[24] and Ouattara was disqualified from the 2000 presidential election.[25] The issues surrounding this were major factors in the Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire, which broke out in 2002.

When asked in an interview about Ouattara's nationality, Burkinabé President Capt. Blaise Compaoré responded, "For us things are simple: he does not come from Burkina Faso, neither by birth, marriage, or naturalization. This man has been Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire."

President Gbagbo affirmed on August 6, 2007 that Ouattara could stand in the next Ivorian presidential election.[26] Ouattara was designated as the RDR's presidential candidate at its Second Ordinary Congress on February 1–3, 2008; he was also re-elected as President of the RDR for another five years. At the congress, he invited the former rebel New Forces, from whom he had previously distanced himself, to team up with the RDR for the election.[27]

The RDR and the PDCI are both members of the Rally of Houphouëtistes, and while Ouattara and Bédié will run separately in the first round, each has agreed to support the other if only the other makes it into a potential second round.[27]

[edit] 2010 presidential electionMain article: Ivorian presidential election, 2010
On December 2, 2010, after a series of delays, the Independent Electoral Commission of Côte d'Ivoire (CEI) declared Alassane Ouattara winner of the second round of the presidential election without presenting the results to the Constitutional Council for confirmation and validation. The head of the Constitutional Council contradicted this. The army closed the borders and foreign news organizations were banned from broadcasting from within Côte d'Ivoire. Mr Gbagbo was sworn in at a midday ceremony by the President of the Constitutional Council on Saturday December 4, 2010. Hours later, Ouattara said he had also taken the presidential oath.[28] The African Union, the European Union, ECOWAS, the United Nations, the United States, and France were among the nations and international organizations that rejected Gbagbo's presidency. The International Monetary Fund stated they would only work with a government recognized by the United Nations,[29] which was assigned the duty of certifying presidential results as part of a 2007 peace deal.[30] On 8 December, the United Nations Security Council formally recognized Ouattara as the winner, and, in a statement, asked "all stakeholders to respect the outcome of the election."[31]

[edit] External links(French) Alassane Ouattara.com Political Web site from Ouattara's circle of influence.