A court in Ivory Coast ruled on Tuesday that opposition leader and former Credit Suisse Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam should be removed from the electoral roll because he was a French national when he registered,

A lawyer says an Ivory Coast court has ruled that former Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam is not eligible to run for president because of his dual Ivorian-French nationality.

An Ivory Coast court’s decision to remove Tidjane Thiam from the voters’ roll effectively disqualified the former Credit Suisse chief executive officer from this year’s presidential election, raising the risk of political instability in the world’s biggest cocoa-producing nation.