Simone Ehivet Gbagbo was born on 20 June 1949 and is an Ivorian politician.
13 Facts About Simone Gbagbo
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Simone Gbagbo is the President of the Parliamentary Group of the Ivorian Popular Front and is a Vice-President of the FPI.
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Simone Gbagbo worked in applied linguistics as a Marxist labor union leader and been nicknamed in the Ivorian press as the "Hillary Clinton des tropiques".
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The mother of five daughters, the last two with her current husband, Laurent Simone Gbagbo, she participated in the teachers' strike movement of 1982.
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Simone Gbagbo was an active trades union militant back in the 1970s, she was imprisoned several times during the struggle for multi-party elections.
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Re-elected to the National Assembly as an FPI Deputy from Abobo in the December 2000 parliamentary election, Simone Gbagbo is President of the FPI Parliamentary Group.
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Simone Gbagbo was last seen on the way to a meeting with Michel Legre, the brother-in-law of Simone Gbagbo.
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Simone Gbagbo filed a defamation lawsuit against Jean-Tony Oulai regarding his charges against her.
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In September 2008, Simone Gbagbo engaged in a two-week tour of the central part of the country, concluding the tour on 14 September in the city of Bouake.
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Simone Gbagbo rallied support for her husband's candidacy in the forthcoming presidential election during this tour and urged participation in the voter identification process.
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The government refused to do so, and Simone Gbagbo was judged by an Ivorian court.
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On 10 March 2015, Simone Gbagbo was sentenced to 20 years in jail for crimes against humanity.
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Simone Gbagbo was pardoned under an amnesty by Ivorien President Alassane Ouattara on 7 August 2018 after serving 3 of her 20-year sentence.