Barry Moussa Barqué is a

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lese politician who served in the government of Togo under

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Gnassingbé Eyadéma Gnassingbé Eyadéma (; born Étienne Gnassingbé, 26 December 1935 – 5 February 2005) was the president of Togo from 1967 until his death in 2005, after which he was immediately succeeded by his son, Faure Gnassingbé. Eyadéma participated i ...

for most of the period from 1979 to 1999. He has been a Special Adviser to the President since 1999.

Life and career

Barqué is a

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from northern Togo. He served as Director of the Autonomous Port of

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during the 1970s and was appointed to the government as Minister of Mines, Energy, and Water Resources on March 19, 1979. He was Minister of Equipment, Mines, Posts and Telecommunications in the early 1980s. Considered a devoted loyalist of Eyadéma,Ebow Godwin
"Has Eyadema Now Found a Successor?"
, ''Ghanaian Chronicle'', August 14, 2003. he served in many positions in the government over the following 20 years,"Jun 1999 - Togo", ''Keesing's Record of World Events'', volume 45, June 1999, Togo, page 42,985. becoming a powerful "baron" of the ruling party, the

Rally of the Togolese People The Rally of the Togolese People (french: Rassemblement du Peuple Togolais, RPT) was the ruling political party in Togo from 1969 to 2012. It was founded by President Gnassingbé Eyadéma and headed by his son, President Faure Gnassingbé, after ...

(RPT).''West Africa''
page 183. At the time of the March 1985 parliamentary election, he was President of the National Commission of General Census of Votes and Verification. Barqué was Special Adviser to the President of the Republic for a time before being appointed as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation on November 29, 1995; he held the latter position until 1996. He subsequently became Minister of State for Finance and Privatization in 1996 until departing from the government in June 1999; he was instead appointed as a Special Advisor to the President at that time. He was stabbed several times by his nephew Altine Barry on the night of October 24–25, 2003, and was flown to Paris for medical treatment. On March 5, 2007, Altine Barry was sentenced to 20 years in prison for this attack. Following the death of President Eyadéma on February 5, 2005, Barqué expressed shock, saying that he had seemed healthy immediately beforehand. Eyadéma's son Fauré Gnassingbé succeeded him as President, but this succession was widely deemed unconstitutional. Barqué was included as part of a Togolese delegation that travelled to

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on February 12 in an attempt to explain and defend Gnassingbé's succession to the

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(ECOWAS), which had reacted to it with hostility. Barqué is a member of the RPT Central Committee; he was elected as a Central Committee member from Tône Prefecture at the RPT's 9th Congress in December 2006. He also serves as a member of the RPT College of Sages. On September 7, 2007, Barqué presided over the ceremony at which the 162 candidates of the ruling RPT for the October 2007 parliamentary election were invested. Under

Faure Gnassingbé Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé Eyadéma (; born 6 June 1966"Biographie de nouve ...

, Barqué remains a Special Adviser to the President with the rank of Minister as of January 2009. Rumors circulated in January 2015 regarding a purported dispute between Barqué and Gnassingbé."Présidentielle sans doute au mois d’avril"
République Togolaise website, 22 January 2015 .

References

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