 A former Ivorian president, Lurend Gbagu, has said he would not let his name be solved. The ex-president had been struck off the electoral roll and has filed an appeal to be registered to vote in local election shuttled for September 2023. We call that Gbagu was acquitted by the international justice of crimes against humanity committed during the bloody post-election crisis of 2010 and 2011. While he remains on the 20-year prison sentence handed down in his absence in Côte d'Ivoire, the conviction handed down in 2018 while he was in prison, which led to the loss of his civic and political right. Meanwhile, 8 million voters are due to go to the polls in Côte d'Ivoire on September the 2nd to renew municipal and regional council.