Autobiography of a political career in Côte d’Ivoire

Yasmina Ouégnin, born in 1979, was elected as a member of parliament to represent the commune of Cocody in Abidjan in December 2011. She served in the first legislature following the post-election crisis under the banner of the PDCI-RDA [2]. The daughter of the ambassador Georges Ouégnin, Director of State Protocol from 1960 to 2001, she displayed a strong personality and pushed the boundaries of political action. In October 2015, faced with the lack of debate within the RHDP [3] parliamentary majority, of which the PDCI was a part, she voted ‘no’ on the draft bill to establish the Third Republic. Removed from her party’s list in the legislative elections of December 2016, she was re-elected as an independent candidate and created her own parliamentary group, Vox Populi.