François Compaoré (born 11 January 1954) is a Burkinabé politician. He was Economic Adviser to the

President of Burkina Faso This is a list of heads of state of Burkina Faso since the Republic of Upper Volta gained independence from France in 1960 to the present day. A total of seven people have served as head of state of Upper Volta/Burkina Faso (not counting four ...

Blaise Compaoré Blaise Compaoré (born 3 February 1951)''Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders'' (2003), page 76–77.

, from 1989 to 2014; he is Compaoré's younger brother.

Life and career

At the Fifth Ordinary Congress of the

Congress for Democracy and Progress The Congress for Democracy and Progress (french: Congrès pour la Démocratie et le Progrès, ''CDP'') was the ruling party in Burkina Faso from 1996 until the overthrow of Blaise Compaoré in 2014. History The party was founded in February 199 ...

(CDP), François Compaoré was designated as a member of the CDP's National Executive Secretariat, with the post of Secretary of the Associative Movement, on 4 March 2012. He ranked 11th on the National Executive Secretariat.Rémi Carayol
"Burkina Faso : François, l'autre Compaoré"
''Jeune Afrique'', 18 July 2012 . By 2012, François Compaoré was "considered the new CDP strongman",Romaric Ollo Hien
"Burkina Faso votes in test for Compaore regime"
AFP, 3 December 2012. and speculation centered on the possibility that he could succeed his brother at the time of the 2015 presidential election. Unless the constitution was amended prior to that point, Blaise Compaoré would be unable to stand for another term, as he would have exhausted the constitutional limit of two terms. In the December 2012 parliamentary election, Compaoré stood as the second candidate on the CDP's candidate list for

Kadiogo Province Kadiogo is a province of Burkina Faso, located in its Centre Region. Its area is of 2,805 km2, containing six departments and a population of 3,032,668 (2019). Its capital is also the state capital, Ouagadougou. It features the central plate ...

, which includes

Ouagadougou Ouagadougou ( , , ) is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural, and economic centre of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 2,415,266 in 2019. The city's ...

, the capital. The CDP won four of the available seats in Kadiogo, thus securing Compaoré a parliamentary seat. He nevertheless chose not to sit as a Deputy in the National Assembly, leaving his substitute to take his seat."Assemblée nationale : La 5e Législature adopte son Règlement à l’unanimité"
Lefaso.net, 21 January 2013 . In 2014, he fled to Benin when his brother lost power.

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