The brand new vp, the primary girl to carry the place in Gabon, was beforehand prime minister and defence minister.
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo has appointed the nation’s first feminine Prime Minister Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda to the function of vp and named a brand new PM to switch her, his secretary-general mentioned.
The bulletins have been made on Monday.
Former Defence Minister Ossouka Raponda, 59, who had been appointed premier in July 2020 after her predecessor stepped down, will now “help” the top of state although the place doesn't enable for an interim function as president.
She is the nation’s first-ever feminine vp.
One other former minister, Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze, will change Ossouka Raponda and kind a brand new authorities, Bongo’s secretary-general Jean-Yves Teale mentioned in a video assertion posted on the presidency’s Twitter account.
Bilie-By-Nze, 55, is an in depth ally of the president and has held a number of ministerial jobs since 2006. Afterward Monday, he introduced a authorities composed of 45 ministers with no reshuffles in the important thing positions.
As prime minister, Ossouka Raponda needed to navigate a fragile political scene after a coup try in 2019 whereas Bongo was on extended medical depart following a stroke.
The brand new vp has had a gentle political rise in Gabon which has been dominated by the identical household for greater than 5 a long time.
She was named price range minister in 2012 earlier than being elected mayor of the capital, Libreville, in 2014, changing into the primary girl to carry that place since 1956. She is an economist by coaching who graduated from the Gabonese Institute of Economic system and Finance, specialising in public finance.
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