Mathieu Kérékou
Mathieu Kérékou | |
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| Preses o Benin | |
| In office Aprile 4, 1996 – Aprile 6, 2006 | |
| Precedit bi | Nicéphore Soglo |
| Succeedit bi | Yayi Boni |
| In office October 26, 1972 – Aprile 4, 1991 | |
| Precedit bi | Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin |
| Succeedit bi | Nicéphore Soglo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 September 1933 Kouarfa, French Dahomey |
| Poleetical pairty | Fowk's Revolutionary Pairty o Benin (1975–1990) |
| Religion | Evangelical Christianity |
Mathieu Kérékou, (born 2 September 1933[1]; died 14 October 2015) wis Preses o Benin frae 1972 tae 1991 an again frae 1996 tae 2006. Efter seizin pouer in a militar coup, he ruled the kintra for 17 years, for maist o that time unner an offeecially Marxist-Leninist ideology, afore he wis stripped o his pouers bi the Naitional Conference o 1990. He wis defeatit in the 1991 presidential election, but wis returned tae the presidency in the 1996 election an controversially re-electit in 2001.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Après 29 ans de pouvoir, le Président Kérékou tire sa révérence", IRIN, 6 April 2006 (in French).
