Michel Gueu, the operations commander of the Ivory Coast Patriotic Movement (MPCI) main rebel group told AFP in Bouake, a central city that has served as the rebel capital since September, that Gbagbo had gone back on his word.
"I believe that Laurent Gbagbo has reserved 11 ministries while only 10 will go to the new forces," he said using a euphemism for the three rebel groups holding more than half the west African country since September 19.
"This neither conforms to the spirit or the letter" of the French accord, he said, adding: "Gbagbo is playing a game of which only he knows the rules."
Gueu said Gbagbo was also reluctant to cede more powers to his new prime minister, Seydou Diarra, in line with the French deal.
The Ivorian media Thursday alleged that Gbagbo and Diarra had reportedly fallen out on the composition of the power-sharing government.
Newspapers said Gbagbo was reluctant to cede authority to the consensus Prime Minister Seydou Diarra, as agreed under a French-brokered peace deal worked out in Paris late last month.
"Gbagbo refuses to give powers to Seydou Diarra", Le Patriote newspaper, an organ of the main opposition Rally of Republicans (RDR) party, said.
The 24 Heures daily said that Gbagbo had sabotaged a 36-member cabinet reportedly agreed to during the peace talks in Paris in which the ruling party, rebels and opposition groups were each alloted seven ministers in a power-sharing government.
It said Gbagbo had proposed a 46-member cabinet in which the ruling Ivorian Popular Front would hold 11 ministries while other forces would get between eight and seven portfolios each.
Gbagbo accepted the peace deal but immediately put it into doubt on his return home by calling it a set of proposals.
He then vacillated on the accord for two weeks and finally told his people that while he accepted it in "spirit", he would not incorporate any measure than ran contrary to the Ivorian constitution -- which reserves tremendous powers for the president.
Rebels have claimed that the defence and interior ministries were promised to them under the peace accord reached after ten days of talks in January in the French town of Marcoussis, near Paris.
Ivory Coast's armed forces and four main political parties have balked at the idea of seeing rebel representatives in a power-sharing government, especially in the two sensitive portfolios.
Rebel official Gueu said: "If there is anyone equipped to hold the defence portfolio it is us, Gbagbo himself knows that he has lost the war. One cannot give the defence ministry to those who beat a hasty retreat."
He also rejected a damning report by London-based rights watchdog Amnesty International which accused the MPCI of executing several gendarmes and their children in October, and called for a new probe.
"In front of such a panel, the witnesses can speak freely," he said, adding that the Amnesty report was based on witness accounts dictated by a lawyer close to Gbagbo and an "active member" of Amnesty International in Ivory Coast.
Amnesty said some 60 gendarmes and about 30 children were killed by MPCI members over four days starting from October 6 - Sapa-AFP
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