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2017 Republic Of The Congo Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Republic of the Congo on 16 July 2017, with a second round of voting following on 30 July in constituencies where no candidate secured a majority. Background Following a 2015 referendum on a new constitution, President Denis Sassou Nguesso was re-elected in the March 2016 presidential elections. The 2017 parliamentary elections were the first elections to the National Assembly held under the 2015 constitution. In the previous parliamentary election, held in 2012, Sassou Nguesso's party, the Congolese Party of Labour (PCT), won a majority of seats.Trésor Kibangula"Carte : les principaux duels des législatives au Congo-Brazzaville" ''Jeune Afrique'', 13 July 2017 . The PCT fielded candidates in 128 out of 151 constituencies in the 2017 election, far more than its rivals. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly (Republic Of The Congo)
The National Assembly (french: Assemblée nationale) is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of the Republic of the Congo. It has 151 members, elected for five-year terms in single-seat constituency, constituencies. Colonial elections *1946–1947 Moyen-Congo Representative Council election, 1946–47 *1952 Moyen-Congo Territorial Assembly election, 1952 *1957 Moyen-Congo Territorial Assembly election, 1957 Post-colonial elections *1959 Republic of the Congo parliamentary election, 1959 *1963 Republic of the Congo parliamentary election, 1963 *1973 People's Republic of the Congo parliamentary election, 1973 *1979 People's Republic of the Congo parliamentary election, 1979 *1984 People's Republic of the Congo parliamentary election, 1984 *1989 People's Republic of the Congo parliamentary election, 1989 *1992 Republic of the Congo parliamentary election, 1992 *1993 Republic of the Congo parliamentary election, 1993 *2002 Republic of the Congo parliamentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Bintsamou
Frédéric Bintsamou (born 29 August 1964, Brazzaville) also known as ''Pastor Ntumi'', is a Protestant clergyman and was the leader of the "semi-religious" rebel group The Ninjas which led a civil war in Congo-Brazzaville. In April 2007, Bintsamou signed a peace agreement with the central government in Brazzaville. Under the agreement, Bintsamou was to disband his militia in exchange for a position as a deputy minister responsible for peace and reparations. Bintsamou was eventually installed in his official post as Delegate-General for the Promotion of the Values of Peace and Repair of the Ravages of War on 28 December 2009. Standing as a candidate of his party, the Conseil National des Républicains (CNR), Bintsamou was elected as a local councilor in Mayama, located in the Pool Department Pool ( kg, Mpumbu, Nsundi, Mbula Ntangu) is a department of the Republic of the Congo in the southeastern part of the country. It borders the departments of Bouenza, Lékoumou, and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis-Christel Sassou Nguesso
Denis-Christel Sassou Nguesso is a Congolese politician. He is the son of President of Congo-Brazzaville Denis Sassou Nguesso. Denis Christel was administrator-general of Cotrade and was subsequently appointed deputy director-general of the National Petroleum Company of the Congo (''Société nationale des pétroles du Congo'', SNPC) in December 2010. He was elected to the National Assembly of Congo-Brazzaville in 2012. Early life and career Denis-Christel Sassou Nguesso attended the Général-Leclerc military preparatory school in Brazzaville and subsequently studied in France. Beginning in 2001,François Soudan"Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso : "Avant d'être le fils du président, je suis un citoyen congolais" ''Jeune Afrique'', 8 January 2014 . he headed the SNPC's branch in the United Kingdom. Subsequently, he was administrator-general of Cotrade, a Congolese state company responsible for marketing oil, from 2005 to 2009. As part of an administrative shake-up at the SNPC, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonidas Mottom
Leonidas I (; grc-gre, Λεωνίδας; died 19 September 480 BC) was a king of the Greek city-state of Sparta, and the 17th of the Agiad line, a dynasty which claimed descent from the mythological demigod Heracles. Leonidas I was son of King Anaxandridas II. He succeeded his half-brother King Cleomenes I to the throne in c. 489 BC. His co-ruler was King Leotychidas. He was succeeded by his son, King Pleistarchus. Leonidas had a notable participation in the Second Greco-Persian War, where he led the allied Greek forces to a last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) while attempting to defend the pass from the invading Persian army; he died at the battle and entered myth as the leader of the 300 Spartans. While the Greeks lost this battle, they were able to expel the Persian invaders in the following year. Life According to Herodotus, Leonidas' mother was not only his father's wife but also his father's niece and had been barren for so long that the ephors, the five an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatole Collinet Makosso
Anatole Collinet Makosso (born 1965) has served as the prime minister of the Republic of the Congo since 2021. He has also served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Primary and Secondary Education from 2015 to 2021, and as the Minister of Youth and Civic Instruction from 2011 to 2016. Life and career A native of Pointe-Noire, Collinet Makosso worked as a teacher. In the early 1990s, he was appointed Political Adviser to the Prefect of Kouilou, then Director of the Cabinet of the Prefect of Kouilou. From 1998 to 2011, he was an Adviser to President Denis Sassou Nguesso, while at the same time serving as Director of the Cabinet of the First Lady, Antoinette Sassou Nguesso.Roger Ngombé"Gouvernement : biographie des trois nouveaux ministres" ''Les Dépêches de Brazzaville'', 20 August 2011 . In 2009, following the death of the President's daughter Edith Lucie Bongo, he published a collection of poems and stories dedicated to her. In 2010, he completed and earne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellot Matson Mampouya
Hellot Matson Mampouya (born 7 February 1964)Roger Ngombé and Thierry Noungou"Portrait du ministre Hellot Matson Mampouya" ''Les Dépêches de Brazzaville'', 2 January 2008 . is a Congolese politician who served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Scientific Research from 2007 to 2009, as Minister of Fishing from 2009 to 2012, as Minister of Primary and Secondary Education from 2012 to 2015, as Minister of Posts and Telecommunications from 2015 to 2016, and again as Minister of Scientific Research from 2016 to 2017. For years he was a leading member of the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development (MCDDI), but in 2013 he formed his own party, the Dynamic for the Republic and Recovery (DRD). Early life and education Mampouya was born across the Congo River in Kinshasa in February 1964. He and other nationals of Congo-Brazzaville were expelled from Congo-Kinshasa by its Prime Minister, Moise Tshombé, in July 1964. Thus he grew up in Congo-Brazzavil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firmin Ayessa
Firmin Ayessa (born 2 November 1951Gankama N'Siah ''Les Dépêches de Brazzaville'', number 749, 9 June 2009, page 2 .) is a Congolese politician who has served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Deputy Prime Minister for Civil Service, State Reform, Labour, and Social Security since 2017. As a long-time associate of President Denis Sassou Nguesso, Ayessa has held a series of key posts at the Presidency of Congo-Brazzaville; he was Director of the Civil Cabinet of the President from 1999 to 2002, Deputy Director of the Presidential Cabinet from 2002 to 2007, and he was Director of the Presidential Cabinet from 2007 to 2017. Political career Ayessa, an ethnic Mbochi,Emmanuel Okamba, ''La gouvernance, une affaire de société: Analyse mythiumétrique de la performance'' (2010), page 176 . was born in Ondza, located near Makoua in the north of Congo-Brazzaville. A journalist by profession, he studied in France; after returning to Congo-Brazzaville, he worked on radio and te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Bouya
Jean-Jacques Bouya (born 24 May 1962"Bouya Jean-Jacques" ''Hommes de Pouvoir'', number 1, Africa Intelligence, 29 October 2002 .) is a Congolese politician who has served in the government of as Minister of Spatial Planning and Major Projects since 2012. A pilot by profession, he served as Transport Adviser to President Denis Sassou Nguesso beginning in 1997 and as Delegate-General for Major Projects beginning in 2003. Career |
Pierre Mabiala
Pierre Mabiala is a Congolese politician who has served in the government of the Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Land Affairs since 2017. He serves in Anatole Collinet Makosso's government. Previously he was a Deputy in the National Assembly of Congo-Brazzaville from 2002 to 2007, a Senator from 2008 to 2009, Minister of Land Affairs from 2009 to 2016, and Minister of Justice from 2016 to 2017. Political career Mabiala, a native of Niari Department,"Pierre Mabiala" ''La Lettre du Continent'', number 681, 30 April 2014 . is a lawyer by profession and worked as a lawyer for the Congolese state in the 1990s. In the May–June 2002 parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Mboulou
Raymond Zéphirin Mboulou (born 19 March 1956"Raymond Zéphirin Mboulou nouveau Secrétaire Général de la Présidence de la République" Congolese Presidency website, 15 May 2007 .Mena Lila Antsoutsoula ''Le Choc'' website .) is a Congolese politician who has served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of the Interior since December 2007. Previously, he was Secretary-General of the Presidency from May 2007 to December 2007. Political career A member ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Ondongo
Gilbert Ondongo (born 1960"Ondongo Gilbert", ''Congo Brazzaville: Les Hommes de Pouvoir'', number 1Africa Intelligence 29 October 2002 .) is a Congolese politician who has served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of State for the Economy, Industry and Public Finances since 2017. Previously he was Minister of Labour from 2005 to 2009, and Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2016. Political career Born at Owando, Ondongo belongs to the Kouyou ethnic group. He began working at the Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville in the 1980s. After Denis Sassou Nguesso returned to power in the June–October 1997 civil war, he appointed Ondongo as Adviser to the President on the Economy, Finance, and the Budget; Ondongo served in that post from 1997 to 2002. He was then appointed to the government on 18 August 2002 as Secretary of State for Budgetary Reform and Financial Administration, working under the Minister of the Economy, Finance, and the Budget. He was promoted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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