Laurent Gbagbo
Also known as Laurent Koudou Gbagbo, Koudou Laurent Gbagbo, Gbagbo, woody de Mama
4th President of Ivory Coast
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Laurent Gbagbo was the fourth president of Ivory Coast, serving from 2000 to 2010. His presidency is significant because it ended in a disputed election result and political crisis that led to international intervention and his eventual arrest by the International Criminal Court for crimes allegedly committed during the conflict.
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Koudou Laurent Gbagbo (Gagnoa Bété: Gbagbo [ɡ͡baɡ͡bo]; French pronunciation: [loʁɑ̃ baɡbo]; born 31 May 1945) is an Ivorian politician who was the president of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011. He was the first president in the history of the country that was a centre-left politician. A historian, Gbagbo was imprisoned in the early 1970s and again in the early 1990s, and he lived in exile in France during much of the 1980s as a result of his union activism. Gbagbo founded the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) in 1982 and ran unsuccessfully for president against Félix Houphouët-Boigny at the start of multi-party politics in 1990. He won a seat in the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire in 1990.
Gbagbo claimed victory after Robert Guéï, head of a military junta, barred other leading politicians from running in the October 2000 presidential election. The Ivorian people took to the streets, toppling Guéï. Gbagbo was then installed as president.
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