Paulin Obame-Nguema (born 28 December 1934.) is a

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ese politician who was the

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from 2 November 1994 to 23 January 1999. He is currently a Deputy in the

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Prime Minister (1994–1999)

Obame-Nguema was born in

Libreville Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon. Occupying in the northwestern province of Estuaire, Libreville is a port on the Komo River, near the Gulf of Guinea. As of the 2013 census, its population was 703,904. The area has been inh ...

. Following 1994 negotiations between the government and the opposition, which resulted in the signing of the Paris Accords on 7 October 1994, 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 ...

appointed Obame-Nguema—a

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and member of the

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(PDG)—as Prime Minister. Although some members of the opposition were included in his government, the two key opposition leaders,

Paul Mba Abessole Paul Mba Abessole (born October 9, 1939
, ''Afrique Express'', number 244, February 6, 2002 . ...

and Pierre-Louis Agondjo-Okawe, refused to participate. Obame-Nguema offered his resignation in June 1996, but he was retained in his post by President Bongo. In the December 1996 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly as a PDG candidate in

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; following that election, Bongo reappointed him as Prime Minister on 27 January 1997, and a new government under Obame-Nguema was appointed on 28 January.

Political activities since 1999

Bongo appointed Jean-François Ntoutoume-Emane to replace Obame-Nguema as Prime Minister in January 1999. Obame-Nguema was then appointed as Minister of State for Public Health, Population, and Social Affairs in late January 1999 before being moved to the post of Minister of Social Affairs on February 10, 1999. He was again elected to the National Assembly as a Deputy from Estuaire Province in the December 2001 parliamentary election. In the December 2006 parliamentary election, Obame-Nguema was re-elected to the National Assembly as the PDG candidate in Kango constituency, located in the Komo Kango Department of Estuaire Province. Due to his status as the oldest Deputy in the National Assembly, Obame-Nguema presided over the first meeting of the new parliamentary term, at which the Bureau of the National Assembly was elected, in January 2007.

Guy Nzouba-Ndama Guy Nzouba-Ndama (born 17 July 1946)Janis Otsiemi, ''Guerre de succession au Gabon: les prétendants'' (2007), page 50 . is a Gabonese politician who was President of the National Assembly of Gabon from 1997 to 2016. He previously served in the gov ...

was re-elected as President of the National Assembly, but Obame-Nguema encountered resistance from opposition deputies regarding the method of election for the other members of the Bureau. The opposition deputies left the chamber and did not participate in those votes. Obame-Nguema then invited Nzouba-Ndama to take his seat as President of the National Assembly. At the PDG's 9th Ordinary Congress in September 2008, Obame-Nguema was designated as President Bongo's Personal Representative."PDG: Faustin Boukoubi au gouvernail"
, Croissance Saine Environnement, September 22, 2008 .

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