Adrien Houngbédji

Adrien Houngbedji ( born March 5, 1942 in Aplahoué ) is a politician from Benin and former Speaker of the National Assembly. In the presidential election in 2006 he was regarded by Boni Yayi as a promising candidate after incumbent Mathieu Kérékou due to age no longer allowed to compete. He was defeated, however, Yayi Boni, as well as in the last presidential elections in 2011, where he reached over 35 % of the vote.

Life

Adrien Houngbedji was born in 1942 in Aplahoué, Benin. In 1967 he was awarded a doctorate in law. In the same year he was top of the class on the French Rechtsuniversiät in Paris. In Cotonou He then founded a very successful law firm; this he had to give up (because of the support of the opposition to the regime Kérékou ) after a death stubbornness part against him. He decamped from prison and went into exile to Gabon where he could practice his profession again.

Return to Benin

In 1990 he returned to Benin to attend the National Conference, which was to lead the state into a democracy with multiple parties. In 1991 he was finally appointed Congress spokesperson and transported 1996, as Prime Minister. In this position he remained active until 1998; a year later he was again Congress spokesperson, as well as Vice- President of the "ACP -EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly ," although only 2001 The party was founded in 1990 by his Parti du Renouveau Démocratique. (German: Party of the renewal of democracy ) is currently the largest party Benin.

Publications

• Il n'y a de richesse que d' hommes. éditions l'Archipel, 2005

Sourou - Migan Apithy | Hubert Maga | Justin Ahomadegbé - Tomêtin | Maurice Kouandété | Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo | Adrien Houngbedji | Pascal Koupaki

• Prime Minister (Benin)
• Beninese
• Born in 1942
• Man