President Alassane Ouattara's decision to stand for a fourth term in office and the electoral commission's exclusion of major opposition candidates means the suspense is rather lacking from Cte d'Ivoire's presidential election on 25 October.
As one Ivoirian entrepreneur in Abidjan, Jean Modeste Tehoua, points out, "I cannot see how Ouattara could lose these elections, given the exclusion of the significant opposition candidates."
Tidjane Thiam, the former Credit Suisse CEO, has been barred from standing for the main opposition party, the PDCI, due to a previous dual nationality issue.