Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro saw their respective appeals contesting their deletion from the electoral lists rejected by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), AFP learned from the CEI and their entourage on Friday. .
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"The decisions have been posted since the 18th, the CEI did not grant their requests," said Inza Kigbafori, the CEI's communications manager, referring to the cases of Laurent Gbagbo and Guillaume Soro but also those of the former leader of the Young Patriots Charles Blé Goudé and the opponent Akossi Bendjo, who on August 6 denounced their absence from the electoral list for the presidential election of October 31. The four men live abroad.