Ex-Credit Suisse Boss’s Bid to Run in Ivorian Vote Blocked Again

Former Credit Suisse AG Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam’s options to run for president of Ivory Coast this year appear to have been exhausted, after a United Nations agency declined to push for his vote to be reinstated.

Thiam had appealed to the United Nations Human Rights Committee after a court in Abidjan removed his name from the electoral roll in April, on the grounds that he still held French citizenship at the time he had registered.