Antoine de Padoue Mboumbou Miyakou (born 12 March 1937"Mboumbou Miyakou Antoine de Padoue", ''Gabon: Les Hommes de Pouvoir N°4''
Africa Intelligence
5 March 2002 .) is a

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ese politician who served in the government of Gabon from 1982 to 2006 and was President of the

Economic and Social Council of Gabon An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the ...

from 2006 to 2012. He has also served as a Vice-President of the

Gabonese Democratic Party The Gabonese Democratic Party (french: Parti Démocratique Gabonais, abbreviated PDG), is the ruling and dominant political party of Gabon. Between 1968 and 1990 it was the sole legal party. History The party was established as the Gabonese Dem ...

(PDG).

Political career

Mboumbou Miyakou was born in

Mayumba Mayumba is a Vili- and Shira-speaking town of about 5,208 people on the Atlantic Ocean coast of Gabon, at the end of the N6 road, lying on a peninsula separated from the mainland by the Banio Lagoon. Description It is known for its long sandy ...

, located in the south of Gabon.''Les Élites africaines''
page 348 . He was Prefect of

Haut-Ogooué Province Haut-Ogooué is the southeasternmost of Gabon's nine provinces. It is named after the Ogooué River. It covers an area of . The provincial capital is Franceville. One of its primary industries is mining, with manganese, gold and uranium being ...

from January 1974 to December 1975 and Governor of Haut-Ogooué Province from December 1975 to October 1981; he was then appointed to the government as a Secretary of State in 1982. Subsequently he was promoted to the rank of Minister-Delegate, serving under the Minister of State for Territorial Administration and Local Collectivities. He was then Minister-Delegate under the Third Deputy Prime Minister from 1987 to 1988 and Minister-Delegate under the Second Deputy Prime Minister from 1988 to 1990. In 1990, Mboumbou Miyakou was promoted to the position of Minister of Territorial Administration and Local Collectivities. As Minister of Territorial Administration and Chairman of the Electoral Commission, he played an important role in the December 1993 presidential election, in which President

Omar Bongo El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba (born Albert-Bernard Bongo; 30 December 1935 – 8 June 2009) was a Gabonese politician who was the second President of Gabon for 42 years, from 1967 until his death in 2009. Omar Bongo was promoted to key positions as ...

was controversially re-elected. His ministerial portfolio was altered in March 1994, when he was appointed as Minister of the Interior, Local Collectivities, and Mobile Security. He was then moved to the position of Minister of Transport, Merchant Marine, and Fishing, in charge of Tourism and the National Parks, in November 1994. He was promoted to the position of Minister of State for the Interior, Public Security, and Decentralization in 1995. Mboumbou Miyakou became Mayor of

Ndindi Ndindi is a small town in Gabon. It is the capital of the Haute-Banio in Nyanga Province. See also *Antoine Mboumbou Miyakou Antoine de Padoue Mboumbou Miyakou (born 12 March 1937"Mboumbou Miyakou Antoine de Padoue", ''Gabon: Les Hommes de Pou ...

in 1996; he was also elected to the

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as a PDG candidate in Nyanga Province in the December 1996 parliamentary election, and again in the December 2001 parliamentary election. He remained in the government after each of those elections, continuing to serve as Minister of State for the Interior, Public Security, and Decentralization until he was moved to the post of Deputy Prime Minister for Urban Affairs on 27 January 2002. He was instead appointed as Deputy Prime Minister for Relations with Parliament, in charge of the Missions and Follow-up of Interministerial Commissions, on 3 June 2005. President Bongo appointed Mboumbou Miyakou as President of the Economic and Social Council on 19 January 2006. He remained in that post until July 2012, when he was succeeded by

Paul Biyoghé Mba Paul Biyoghé Mba (born 18 April 1953)"Gabon : Paul Biyoghe Mba nouveau Pre ...

. On 10 June 2014, he was appointed as Political Adviser to the President, Ali Bongo."Emmanuel Ondo Methogo limogé de la Présidence : conséquence de l’échec du PDG aux locales du Ntem ?"
Gaboneco, 17 June 2014 .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mboumbou, Antoine Members of the National Assembly of Gabon Living people 1937 births Government ministers of Gabon Gabonese Democratic Party politicians People from Haut-Ogooué Province People from Nyanga Province Mayors of places in Gabon 21st-century Gabonese people