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2015 Burkinabè General Election
General elections were held in Burkina Faso on 29 November 2015. They were the first national elections in the country since the 2014 Burkinabé uprising and the departure of President Blaise Compaoré, who had ruled Burkina Faso for 27 years. Compaoré's party, the Congress for Democracy and Progress, was banned from presenting a presidential candidate in the presidential elections but was still able to participate in the parliamentary election. The presidential election was won by Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of the People's Movement for Progress, who received 53% of the vote in the first round, avoiding the need for a second round. Kaboré took office on 29 December, becoming only the second civilian president since the country gained independence from France in 1960 and the first civilian to hold the post in 49 years. Background 2014 uprising Following an amendment in 2000, the constitution limits presidents to two terms of five years. However, the restrictions were not appli ...
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Roch Marc Christian Kaboré
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (; born 25 April 1957) is a Burkinabé banker and politician who served as the President of Burkina Faso from 2015 until he was deposed in 2022. He was the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso between 1994 and 1996 and President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso from 2002 to 2012. Kaboré was also president of the Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP) until his departure from the party in 2014. He founded the People's Movement for Progress party that same year. Kaboré was elected president in the November 2015 general election, winning a majority in the first round of voting. Upon taking office, he became the first non-interim president in 49 years without any past ties to the military. Kaboré worked as a banker prior to his political career. On 24 January 2022, during a coup d'état, Kaboré was deposed and detained by the military. After the announcement, the military declared that the parliament, government and constitution had been diss ...
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Honoré Traoré
General Honoré Nabéré Traoré (born 28 September 1957)« Honoré Traoré, chef d’Etat: des manifestants réclament le général Kouamé Lougué »
, fasozine.com, 31 octobre 2014
is a Burkinabé who served as the interim head of state of for one day, from 31 October to 1 November 2014, following the overthrow of Blaise Compaoré in ...
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Roch Marc Christian Kabore
Roch (lived c. 1348 – 15/16 August 1376/79; traditionally c. 1295 – 16 August 1327), also called Rock in English, was a Kingdom of Majorca, Majorcan Catholic confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy; he was especially invoked against the Black Death, plague. He has the designation of Rollox in Glasgow, Scotland, said to be a corruption of Roch's Loch, which referred to a small loch once near a chapel dedicated to Roch in 1506. It is also the name of a football club, St Roch's in Glasgow. He is a patron saint of dogs, invalids, falsely accused people, bachelors, and several other things. He is the patron saint of Dolo, Veneto, Dolo (near Venice) and Parma, as well as Casamassima, Cisterna di Latina and Palagiano (Italy). He is also the patron saint of the towns of Arboleas and Albanchez, in Almería, Almería, southern Spain, and Deba, Gipuzkoa, Deba, in the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country. Saint Roch is known as "São Roqu ...
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