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List Of Presidents Of The National Assembly Of Benin
Below is a list of presidents of the National Assembly of Dahomey: Below is a list of presidents of the Permanent Committee of National Revolutionary Assembly of Benin: Below is a list of presidents of the National Assembly of Benin: Sources {{DEFAULTSORT:Presidents of the National Assembly of Benin Politics of Benin Lists of Beninese people 1959 establishments in the Republic of Dahomey Benin politics-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of Benin
The unicameral National Assembly is Benin's legislative body. The National Assembly in Porto-Novo as it exists today was formed in 1990. The current National Assembly has 83 members who are directly elected through a system of party-list proportional representation and serve five-year terms. History The first parliament of an independent Benin was defined by the Constitution of 28 February 1959 and lasted from April 1959 to November 1960. It was chaired by Justin Ahomadegbé Tomètin. With a 1960 and a 1964 constitution, two new National Assemblies were enacted each time. The implementation of the Basic Law of 9 September 1977 radically altered the parliament. It was renamed the Revolutionary National Assembly (ANR) and lasted until February 1990. The High Council of the Republic was formed in February 1990 to democratize the country and was chaired by Archbishop Isidore de Souza. A new constitution was passed on 11 December 1990 which formed the basic structure of the current as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin
Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin (January 16, 1917 – March 8, 2002) was a Beninese politician most active when his country was known as Dahomey. He arose on a political scene where one's power was regionalism (politics), dictated by what region of Dahomey one lived in. He served as List of Presidents of the National Assembly of Benin, president of the National Assembly of Dahomey from April 1959 to November 1960 and as Prime Minister of Dahomey, prime minister and Vice President of Dahomey, vice president of Dahomey from 1964 to 1965. Ahomadégbé became President as part of a system that rotated the office between three leading political figures: Ahomadégbé, Hubert Maga, and Sourou-Migan Apithy. Maga peacefully handed power to Ahomadégbé on May 7, 1972. On October 26, 1972, he was Coup d'état, overthrown in a coup d'état led by Mathieu Kérékou. All three remained under house arrest until 1981. Early life and entry into politics Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin was born on Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentin Djibodé Akplogan
Valentin is a male given name meaning "strong, healthy, power, rule, terco". It comes from the Latin name ''Valentinus'', as in Saint Valentin. Commonly found in Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Scandinavia, Latin America etc. Valentin is also used as a surname in Spanish and German speaking-countries. Given name First name * Valentin Abel (born 1991), German politician * Valentin Alexandru (born 1991), Romanian footballer * Valentin Blass (born 1995), German basketball player * Valentin Bondarenko (1937–1961), Soviet fighter pilot * Valentin de Boulogne (before 1591 – 1632), French painter * Valentin Brunel (born 1996), French DJ known as Kungs * Valentin "Val" Brunn (born 1994), German electronic music producer and DJ known as Virtual Riot * Valentin Bosioc (born 1983), Romanian bodybuilder * Valentín Castellanos (born 1998), Argentine footballer * Valentin Ceaușescu (born 1948), Romanian physicist * Valentin Chmerkovskiy (born 1986), Ukra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahirou Congakou
Tahirou Congacou (1911 – 15 June 1993) was a Beninese politician, most active during the 1960s, when his country was known as Dahomey. He served as President of the National Assembly from 1964 to 1965, and in that capacity served as acting President of Benin from 29 November 1965 to 22 December 1965. He also served as acting foreign minister during 1965. Early political career Congacou was born to a Dendi family in 1913 and was a descendant of the Djougou royal house. His ancestors were oral tradition keepers in the kingdom of Djougou. In colonial Dahomey, Congacou served as a subprefect in Nikki. In the aftermath of World War II, he was a deputy to the General Council of Dahomey. He also served in the Dahomey territorial assembly from 1952 to 1957.. When Hubert Maga was deposed in 1963, Congacou was elected head of the National Assembly, as well as assistant secretary general of the Parti Democratique Dahomeen (PDD), the new national party. He served as President of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isidore De Souza
Isidore de Souza (4 April 1934 – 13 March 1999) was a Beninese priest who was Archbishop of Cotonou from 1990 to 1999. He was born into the aristocratic De Souza family of Ouidah on 4 April 1934. He was the uncle of Chantal Yayi, who served as First Lady of Benin from 2006 to 2016, and the late Marcel Alain de Souza (1953–2019), a banker and former President of the ECOWAS Commission. De Souza went on to study in Abidjan and Rome.Houngnikpo & Decalo 2013, p. 139 He was ordained a priest on 8 July 1962. De Souza was appointed as Coadjutor Archbishop of Cotonou on 17 July 1981 and became Archbishop on 27 December 1990.Isidore de Souza Catholic Hierarchy He led the National Conference in February 1990, which was convened to address economic issues but returned Benin to democracy. He was instrumental in preventing the army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrien Houngbédji
Adrien Houngbédji (born 5 March 1942) is a Beninese politician and the leader of the Democratic Renewal Party (''Parti du renouveau démocratique'', PRD), one of Benin's main political parties. He was President of the National Assembly of Benin from 1991 to 1995, Prime Minister of Benin from 1996 to 1998, and President of the National Assembly again from 1999 to 2003. Beginning in 1991, he stood repeatedly as a presidential candidate; he placed second in 2006, but was heavily defeated by Yayi Boni in a second round of voting. From 2015 to 2019, he served for a third time as President of the National Assembly. Political career Adrien Houngbédji was born in Aplahoué (Benin) in 1942.National Assembly page on Houngbédji , bj.refer.org . He earned a Doctorate in Law from the |
Bruno Amoussou
Bruno Ange-Marie Amoussou (born 2 July 1939) is a Beninese politician who was President of the National Assembly of Benin from 1995 to 1999https://assemblee-nationale.bj/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Histoire-et-patrimoine.pdf and Minister of State for Planning and Prospective Development under President Mathieu Kérékou from 1999 to 2005. He is currently a Deputy in the National Assembly. As the long-time leader of the Social Democratic Party (Benin), Social Democratic Party (PSD), Amoussou stood as a presidential candidate in 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006. Political career Amoussou was born in Djakotomey in south-western Benin. In the 1991 Beninese presidential election, 1991 presidential election, he received 5.8% of the vote and fourth place, therefore failing to qualify for the second round. Following the 1995 Beninese parliamentary election, March 1995 parliamentary election, he was elected as President of the National Assembly on 12 June 1995. During his political career, his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Idji Kolawolé
Antoine Idji Kolawolé (born 1946) is a Beninese politician. He was the minister of foreign affairs of Benin from 1998 to 2003 and the President of the National Assembly from 2003 to 2007. Political career Kolawolé was born in 1946 in Illikimou, near Kétou, Benin. Under President Mathieu Kérékou, Kolawolé served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from May 1998 to May 2003, when he resigned. In the March 2003 parliamentary election, his party, the African Movement for Development and Progress (MADEP), participated in the Presidential Movement, which supported Kérékou, and Kolawolé was elected as President of the National Assembly on April 25, 2003. Kolawolé served as First Vice-President of MADEP, and in September 2005 he was designated as the party's presidential candidate for the March 2006 presidential election. In the election, he took fifth place with 3.25% of the vote in the first round. He was re-elected to the National Assembly in the March 2007 parliamentary el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathurin Nago
Mathurin Coffi Nago is a Beninese politician who was President of the National Assembly of Benin from 2007 to 2015. Previously he was Minister of Higher Education and Vocational Training from 2006 to 2007. Political career As a candidate of the Union for Democracy and National Solidarity, Nago was elected to the National Assembly in the 1995 parliamentary election. He served in the National Assembly until the end of the parliamentary term in 1999, and during that period he was a member of the National Assembly's Commission of Planning, Equipment and Production. He has also been Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of Benin. He became Minister of Higher Education and Vocational Training in April 2006 as part of President Yayi Boni's first government."Le gouvernement du Bé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Vlavonou
Gbèhounou Louis Vlavonou (born 1953) is a Beninese politician who is the current President of the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the rep .... He is a member of the Progressive Union party. He has been a Member of Parliament since 2003 before being elected president of the National Assembly of Benin on 17 May 2019 with 78 votes, 1 against and 3 abstentions. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Vlavonou, Louis Living people Presidents of the National Assembly (Benin) Members of the National Assembly (Benin) Progressive Union (Benin) politicians 1953 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
