In an open letter addressed to the Ivorian people on Thursday, June 12, 2025, former President Laurent Gbagbo called for mobilization in support of a new citizen movement named "Enough is Enough!" He presents it as a peaceful and democratic gathering, serving a free, just, and prosperous Côte d'Ivoire. "I invite you to join this movement for peaceful and democratic change, to build a free, just, and prosperous Côte d'Ivoire," he writes.
According to the president of the African Peoples' Party – Côte d'Ivoire (PPACI), "Enough is Enough!" is not a political party but a cross-cutting tool for citizen mobilization. It is an open gathering space for all, beyond political divides, to voice the real concerns of the people.
Laurent Gbagbo states that the movement aims to be a citizen lever capable of uniting the nation's vital forces: political parties, trade unions, associations, youth, women, precarious workers, teachers, farmers, artists, unemployed, evicted people... All are called to join this common project to give the Ivorian people a strong and audible platform, able to assert their rights and carry their demands. He emphasizes that "Enough is Enough!" is not an insurrectionary movement but a citizen call, a peaceful gathering of women and men.
The former head of state explains that the creation of this movement stems from several months of listening and dialogue with the people. According to him, for nearly 15 years, Ivorians have lived under a power he describes as autocratic, where social and democratic aspirations are regularly ignored. He denounces the visible consequences of this situation: growing poverty, exclusion, inequalities, frustrations, and disenchantment. It is to respond to this feeling of abandonment expressed by women, youth, workers, teachers, farmers, retirees, civil society members, and political leaders that this movement was born.
For Laurent Gbagbo, the voice of these vital forces no longer carries, and it needed to be raised higher. A citizen tool was needed, open, cross-cutting, capable of broadly uniting to say together: Enough is Enough. He affirms that the movement is now ready.
He specifies that this movement rejects sterile divisions and places the interests of the people above political calculations. It embodies, according to him, a common will for profound, urgent, and peaceful change. The movement is built around two major demands: on one side, strong social demands against the high cost of living, forced evictions, exclusion, precariousness, the instrumentalization of justice, and the imprisonment of opponents; on the other, the strict respect of the Constitution, with firm opposition to any attempt at a fourth presidential term, which he considers contrary to the fundamental law and dangerous for democracy.
Laurent Gbagbo concludes his letter by calling for the unity of Ivorians. "The fight we are waging goes beyond parties and personal ambitions. It is a fight for our freedom, for our rights, for the future of our nation. I say this with determination: we will win this fight."