The president of the Ivory Coast appoints former Prime Minister Patrick Achi as special advisor

MADRID Jan. 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The president of Côte d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, has appointed former Prime Minister Patrick Achi (2021-2023) as special advisor to the Presidency this Tuesday, after almost a year and a half ago he was removed from the position of head of Government in in the midst of a major government remodeling.

“Ouattara proceeded this Tuesday to sign a decree of nomination to the Presidency of the Republic. Thus, former Prime Minister Patrick Jérome Achi has been appointed Minister of State and special advisor to the Presidency,” reads a brief statement published by the office of the Ivorian president through his profile on the social network X.

This announcement takes place just ten months before the presidential elections of the African country, in which former president Laurent Gbagbo is running and at the moment it is unknown if Ouattara will seek re-election.

Achi was appointed prime minister in March 2021 following the death from cancer of his predecessor, Hamed Bakayoko, who succeeded Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who died in July 2020. After leaving the Government, Achi joined the academic world, so that this return marks a new stage for this key actor in the Ouattara administration.