Serge Michel Odzoki (born 29 December 1948) is a Congolese politician. A member of the

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(PCT), he is a journalist by profession and worked for years as a diplomat before serving in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Sports and Youth from December 2007Mena Lila Antsoutsoula, "Portraits de six nouveaux membres du Gouvernement", ''Le Choc'' website . Roger Ngombé, "Portrait du nouveau ministre des Sports et de la Jeunesse", ''Les Dépêches de Brazzaville'', 5 January 2008 . to September 2009. He has been a Deputy in the

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since 2009 and Spokesman of the PCT since 2011.

Biography

Odzoki was born in Ouesso. He studied in France and earned a degree in journalism. Back in Congo, he worked as a journalist; he was the

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to the Presidency of the Republic from 1979 to 1981, as well as editor in chief at National Congolese Broadcasting and deputy editor at National Congolese Television. He then served as Director of National Congolese Broadcasting from 1984 to 1986. Subsequently, he was Deputy Delegate of the Congolese Embassy to the Agency of Cultural and Technical Cooperation (ACCT) from 1986 to 1993, as well as Deputy Permanent Representative of Congo to

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and cultural and press counsellor at the Congolese Embassy in France. In 1997, he became the interim ''chargé d'affaires'' at the Congolese embassy in

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, holding that post for ten years. In the June–August 2007 parliamentary election, Odzoki was elected to the National Assembly as the PCT candidate in the first constituency of Ewo."Les résultats des élections législatives, avant l'examen des contentieux électoraux", ''La Semaine Africaine'', number 2,720, 21 August 2007, page 7 . He received 32.67% of the vote in the first round against 22.28% for Yvon Norbert Gambeg of the Club 2002-PUR; in the second round of voting, he defeated Gambeg, receiving 62.65% of the vote. Following the election, he was designated as First Vice-President of the Education, Culture, Science and Technology Commission in the National Assembly on 18 September 2007. He was subsequently appointed to the government as Minister of Sports and Youth on 30 December 2007. Odzoki was dismissed from the government on 15 September 2009; he was succeeded at the Ministry of Sports by Jacques-Yvon Ndolou on 21 September 2009. He then returned to his seat in the National Assembly. At the PCT's Sixth Extraordinary Congress in July 2011, he was elected to the PCT's 51-member Political Bureau and designated as the PCT's Secretary for Communication and Spokesman. In the July 2012 parliamentary election, Odzoki was re-elected to the National Assembly as the PCT candidate in the first constituency of Ewo; he won the seat in the first round of voting,"Résultats du premier tour des élections législatives 2012"
''La Semaine Africaine'', 24 July 2012 . receiving 60.43% of the vote. In September 2012, he was again designated as First Vice-President of the National Assembly's Education, Culture, Research, Science, and Technology Commission. During the campaign for the September 2014 local elections, Odzoki was dispatched to

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to campaign for the PCT's candidates there.Pascal Azad Doko
"Elections locales : Véritable marathon de Pierre Ngolo, pour soutenir les candidats du P.c.t"
''La Semaine Africaine'', 23 September 2014 .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Odzoki, Serge Michel 1948 births Living people Members of the National Assembly (Republic of the Congo) Government ministers of the Republic of the Congo Congolese Party of Labour politicians