Alassane Dramane Ouattara is an Ivorian politician and president of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR), an Ivorian political party. As the RDR leader and candidate, he was a candidate in the 2010 Côte d'Ivoire presidential election, where he was one of the top two candidates in the first round of voting. In the second round, he faced incumbent Laurent Gbagbo; Ouattara, as of March 2011, asserts that he won this election and is the elected President of Côte d'Ivoire. Many sovereign authorities outside Côte d'Ivoire accept the validity of Ouattara's claim; however, the other candidate, Gbagbo, had not accepted this claim as of March 2011, leading to a major political crisis in this sub-Saharan African nation.
Ouattara was the unelected Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993; under the national constitution in effect at that time, he was appointed to the post by the late President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. A technocrat, Ouattara trained as an economist and worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the ... »
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