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Former boss loan Suis Tijan TIAM should run for the president in the upcoming elections to the Coast -Dioire, his party confirmed.
62 -year -old TIAM was the only candidate who fought with the country’s main opposition party, PDCI.
Tiam spent the last two decades, living abroad, and had to abandon his French citizenship in order to be able to stand in the presidential election.
The former minister held the position of directors in leading international enterprises, such as Aviva, Prudential and Credit Suisse, although he resigned after the espional scandal.
Geoffroy Kouao political scientist told AFP that Thiam was not “well known to Iwar”, having spent more than 20 years outside the country, pursuing his business career, and therefore he will have to hold a strong campaign to win the October elections.
The RHDP ruling party has not yet announced its candidate, but the current president, 83-year-old Alasan Watter, is likely to run for a fourth term.
Three other known figures, including former President Laurent Gbagbo, were banned, AFP reports.
Thamo had something checkered career.
After becoming the first Ivarian, which passed the entrance exam at the prestigious French engineering school, he returned to the ivory coast and engaged in politics.
In 1998, at the age of 36, he became Minister of Planning Before PDCI was dismissed from power in the coup next year.
He then moved abroad and continued his successful business career.
In 2009, he became the first black man to head the company on the FTSE 100 in the UK when he was appointed CEO of Prudential Insurance Company.
However, he was later revised by the financial regulator for not opening the planned absorption.
Five years later, he was forced to resign in 2020 as the head of the Swiss Bank’s loan after he was accused of espionage for two colleagues he refused.
It is well connected in the West African political circles-on-the-head of the first president Coast-Deavoir Felix Hafuet-Bonya, while his uncle Habib Tiam was only nine years.
