Movement of the Forces of the Future
The Movement of the Forces of the Future (
Côte d'Ivoire. The MFA was founded by Innocent Anaky
in December 1992.
In the
National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire
; Anaky was the only MFA candidate to win a seat.
On 18 May 2005, the MFA was one of four parties (along with the
Union for Democracy and Peace in Côte d'Ivoire) signing an agreement to form a coalition, the Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace, ahead of the presidential election then planned for October 2005.[1][2]
In a state television broadcast on 18 March 2009, MFA President Innocent Anaky called for the people to overthrow President Laurent Gbagbo; he was subsequently arrested.[3] He was questioned and released on 21 March, and on 23 March he announced that the MFA was withdrawing from the coalition government, in which the party had held one portfolio; the party's only minister at the time was the Minister of Reconstruction, Bamba Hamza.[4]
Anaky was the MFA's candidate for the
October 2010 presidential election
(which was held five years late) but received a negligible portion of the vote.
References
- ^ "La nouvelle alliance contre Gbagbo", rfi.fr, 19 May 2005 (in French).
- ^ "Côte d'Ivoire: Former political foes strike pact to oust Gbagbo", IRIN, 18 May 2005.
- ^ "Ivory Coast opposition calls for coup", Reuters (IOL), 21 March 2009.
- ^ "Cote d'Ivoire's MFA quits coalition government", Xinhua (People's Daily Online), 24 March 2009.
