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Laurent Gbagbo

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Laurent Gbagbo is the 3,339th most popular politician (down from 3,034th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Côte d'Ivoire (up from 4th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ivorian Politician.

Laurent Gbagbo was the president of Cote d'Ivoire until he was overthrown in 2011.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Laurent Gbagbo ranks 3,339 out of 19,576. Before him are Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Alexander Ypsilantis, Charles Tupper, Abdirashid Shermarke, Eleanor de' Medici, and Musa Çelebi. After him are Shamshi-Adad I, Louis Desaix, Emperor Go-Sai, Alfonso I of Asturias, Shalmaneser V, and Lucius Vitellius the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Laurent Gbagbo ranks 72. Before him are Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Carmen Maura, Bryan Ferry, Piero Ferrari, Linda Hunt, and Bette Midler. After him are Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Itzhak Perlman, Nikita Mikhalkov, Massimo Moratti, Sam Anderson, and Steve Martin.

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In Côte d'Ivoire

Among people born in Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo ranks 3 out of 140. Before him are Alassane Ouattara (1942), and Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905). After him are Didier Drogba (1978), Jean-Pierre Kutwa (1945), Alpha Blondy (1953), Yaya Touré (1983), Henri Konan Bédié (1934), Sangoulé Lamizana (1916), Robert Guéï (1941), Bernard Agré (1926), and Ahmadou Kourouma (1927).

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Among POLITICIANS In Côte d'Ivoire

Among politicians born in Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo ranks 3. Before him are Alassane Ouattara (1942), and Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905). After him are Henri Konan Bédié (1934), Sangoulé Lamizana (1916), Robert Guéï (1941), Charles Konan Banny (1942), Daniel Kablan Duncan (1943), Bernard Binlin Dadié (1916), Seydou Diarra (1933), Amadou Gon Coulibaly (1959), and Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio (1951).

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