Alliance des jeunes patriotes pour le sursaut national
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The Alliance des jeunes patriotes pour le sursaut national (Template:Fr icon Alliance of Young Patriots for National Survival) commonly known as Young Patriots, of Côte d'Ivoire.
Organisation
A youth movement supportive of the President of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo and his ruling Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) party.[clarification needed] Its founder, and current leader, is Charles Blé Goudé.
The group formed in 2002, as a wider, and more militant coalition of nationalist groups, led by Blé Goudé's Congrès Panafricain des Jeunes et des Patriotes (COJEP), which still is the dominant organization.
This new organisation incorporated:
- COJEP - Blé Goudé's original organisation
- la Fédération des étudiants et scolaires de Côte d'Ivoire (FESCI) - another student organization loyal to Gbagbo
- The campaign to repatriate Alassane Ouattara, an Ivorian Muslim politician and opponent of Gbagbo who originally came from Burkina Faso.
- Thierry Legré's "Movement for the Republican Conscience".
Directors
The principal directors are:
- Charles Blé Goudé, Secretary-general;
- Jean-Yves Dibopieu, former Secretary-general of FESCI;
- Richard Dacoury, président de la Sorbonne;
- Idriss Ouattara, président des agoras et parlements de Côte d'Ivoire;
- Ahoua Stallone, porte-parole;
- Koné Seydou;
- Thierry Légré.