Jean-Claude Siapa Ivouloungou (1958? – 3 July 2012) was a Congolese politician. A member of the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UPADS), he was a Deputy in the National Assembly of the Republic of Congo from 2002 to 2012. When the

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began meeting in March 2004, he became one of the Republic of Congo's five members.

Career

Siapa Ivouloungou was elected to the National Assembly in the May–June 2002 parliamentary election as the UPADS candidate in

Mayoko Mayoko District is a district in the Niari Department of Republic of the Congo. The capital lies at Mayoko. It has a northern border with Gabon. As of 2007, the population is 5,147. Transport Mayoko is served by a branch railway of the Con ...

constituency, located in

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; he won the seat in the first round with 54.38% of the vote. He was re-elected to the National Assembly in the June–August 2007 parliamentary election as the UPADS candidate in Mayoko constituency,"Elections législatives : les 44 élus du premier tour"
''Les Dépêches de Brazzaville'', 2 July 2007 . this time receiving 75% of the vote. As spokesman for UPADS, Siapa Ivouloungou denounced the Constitutional Court's June 2009 exclusion of UPADS candidate

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from the July 2009 presidential election. He claimed that the decision, which was based on Poungui's lack of continuous residency for two years, was politically motivated, arguing that "over the last two years, all the candidates moved around, to visit family abroad, to fine-tune their plans". Siapa Ivouloungou stood again as a candidate for the July 2012 parliamentary election, but he suffered a

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and died in Paris on 3 July 2012, before the election was held.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Siapa Ivouloungou, Jean-Claude Year of birth missing 2012 deaths Members of the National Assembly (Republic of the Congo) Members of the Pan-African Parliament from the Republic of the Congo Pan-African Union for Social Democracy politicians 1950s births