Laurent Gbagbo Quotes (14 Quotes)

I hope elections will take place well before 12 months ... that is a job I will entrust to my new prime minister whom we will name in a few days,

The international community calls on us to complete the electoral process within 12 months at the latest. I hope those elections will take place before the 12 months (expire), and that is the mission I shall give to the prime minister we will appoint in a few days,

This was more like a terrorist act to alarm the population than an act of war, ... The people who did this coup are amateurs, they're children.

I think it has been one of the most successful boycotts in Africa, ... We're happy. Very few people voted.

Go tomorrow to vote. Be vigilant, be there at every polling station to oversee the vote.

This is the last time I want to hear this issue raised.

Police, gendarmes and soldiers from all branches of the armed forces are ordered to use all means throughout the country to oppose troublemakers,

I am going into the talks totally confident, hoping that we will re-establish the legal republican order throughout Ivory Coast,

The children of Ivory Coast will not allow them to do it. Those who stand up against us, we will fight,

I told them if that was the truth, then an inquiry should be opened and the culprits brought to book.

The plotters of yesterday, the plotters of today ... they swim in the water and think we don't see their backs but we see them.

They fell under the bullets of those who refused to see that this country had changed. Death has no party. Death has no religion.

Take other elections throughout the world, ... Take the election in the U.S. itself. The turnout rate is not higher than what we got. ... I was elected democratically in my country, and I believe I have a right to conduct my mandate.

remain calm, and I ask them not to give in to provocations.