The first elections to the Representative Council of Moyen-Congo (the French colony of present-day

Republic of the Congo The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...

, also known as

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) were held between December 1946 and January 1947. A government decree, issued on 26 October 1946, had called for the holding of elections for Representative Councils in each of the territories of

French Equatorial Africa French Equatorial Africa (french: link=no, Afrique-Équatoriale française), or the AEF, was the federation of French colonial possessions in Equatorial Africa, extending northwards from the Congo River into the Sahel, and comprising what are ...

.Thompson, Virginia McLean, and Richard Adloff.
The Emerging States of French Equatorial Africa
'. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1960. pp. 37-40 The Representative Councils were divided into two segments, one elected by common law citizens (first college, i.e. French citizens) and one elected by citizens of professional stature (second college, i.e. Africans who were 21 years and above, and qualified as a member of one of twelve specified categories; civil servants, notables, soldiers and veterans, heads of native collectivities, members of native courts, etc.) In Moyen-Congo, the first college had 12 seats and the second college had 18 seats. As of November 1946 (the time of the French National Assembly election) the second college had 23,119 registered voters (out of a population of 684,000). The Congolese member of the

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, Jean-Félix Tchicaya (also the founder of the

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), had been the sole voice from French Equatorial Africa to condemn the separate electoral college system during the debates in the National Assembly in the run-up to the elections. The Congolese Progressive Party (PPC) won the election, obtaining 15 of the seats. Their main rival, the

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(led by

Jacques Opangault Jacques Opangault (13 December 1907 – 20 August 1978) was a Congolese politician. The founder of the '' Mouvement Socialiste Africain'' (MSA; en, African Socialist Movement), he competed with Félix Tchicaya's ''Parti Progressiste Congolais'' ( ...

) got nine seats.Bazenguissa-Ganga, Rémy.
Les voies du politique au Congo: essai de sociologie historique
'. Paris: Karthala, 1997. p. 38Pérez Epanga, Etienne.
Regard sur le député et ses mille mondes
'. p. 20

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