Generational Tensions in the Parti Democratique de Cote d'Ivoire

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ID2595889
AutoresJeanne Maddox Toungara (autor correspondente)
Ano1995
Volume38
Fascículo2
Páginas11
Data de publicação1995-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/525316
OpenAlexW2052439287
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas11

Laurent Dona Fologo, Fraternit, Matin, 19 April 1991 The theme of the Ninth Congress of the PDCI, which opened 1 October 1990 in the president's village of Yamoussoukro, was renovation and continuity (Fraternite Hebdo, 4 October 1990). With three thousand activists taking part, it was the most widely attended congress ever held. Earlier that year, the leader of the Parti Democratique de CUte d'Ivoire, President Felix Houphouiet-Boigny (deceased 7 December 1994), had announced an end to one-party rule. The goal of the congress, then, was to revamp the PDCI so that it could compete effectively against the electoral challenge it would now face from opposition parties. Ten commissions were organized to restructure the PDCI and formulate a platform to deal with the political and economic problems plaguing the nation. When the delegates emerged, five days later, the party had been reorganized. Among other things, it now included a broader representation of generations, professions and interest groups in each of the party organs and committees. Not surprisingly, differences of opinion have emerged within PDCI ranks as to how an open, efficient, and improved party should function. Far from entering this new era of Ivoirian politics as a monolithic entity, as victorious election figures might suggest,' the PDCI came rife with tensions between loyal members. In local commentary and the print media, as well as in informal conversation, the differences of opinion have been viewed within a fourfold classification. The anciens represented the oldest and most conservative wing of the party and generally wish to maintain the status quo; the reformers favored moderate change; the renovators supported a complete revamping of party organs; and the radicals, or jeune loups (literally, the young wolves, or, in English idiom, the Young Turks), were seeking to ensure their entry into the party leadership. These differences not only revealed continuities with

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