Jean-Marie Doré

Jean -Marie Doré ( born June 12, 1938 in Bossou, Lola Prefecture) is a Guinean politician. As president of the Union pour le Progres de la Guinée ( UPG) he was one of the opposition leaders. In January 2010, Doré was appointed Prime Minister of the transitional government, which is to prepare the transition to democracy a year after the military coup by Moussa Dadis Camara.

Biography

Jean -Marie Doré was born in the forest region of Guinea. He studied law in Lyon and specialized in after his return to Guinea on labor law. In the 1970s, he accepted a post at the International Labour Organization in Geneva, in parallel, he began his studies in political science. After a stay in Germany Doré in 1988 went back to Guinea, where he founded a transport company.

In the early 1990s founded Doré the opposition party UPG, for which he took up in the presidential elections in 1993 and 1998. 1998 Doré received only 1.7% of the votes cast. In the parliamentary elections in 2002, UPG was one of the few opposition parties not to boycott the elections. But they refused afterwards the adoption of the three seats it had won as the second strongest opposition party.

As had a military junta Moussa Dadis Camara took power in December 2008 after the death of long-time President Lansana Conté, Doré was appointed spokesperson for the opposition Alliance des Forces Vives Forum (FFV ). Doré became the liaison officer of the opposition to Camara, since both come from Forest Guinea.

On 28 September 2009, there were riots in the capital Conakry, as an opposition rally was violently suppressed by the military. In the massacre of more than 150 people were killed, Doré was seriously injured.

After the incumbent President Camara was seriously injured in an assassination attempt in December 2009, Sékouba Konaté took over the official duties and disempowered in fact Camara. He took immediate negotiations with the opposition to establish a transitional government. In a crucial vote in the FFV is Doré sat narrowly against the trade unionist Rabiatou Serah Diallo and was named as a candidate for the post of prime minister. Konaté agreed to the proposal and instructed Doré on January 19, 2010 with the formation of a government. Goal is the preparation of democratic presidential elections, which are to be aligned within six months.

The first round of presidential elections took place on 27 June 2010 in the run-off election on 24 October 2010 and then sat the longtime opposition leader Alpha Condé against the former Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo by. After the swearing in of Condé as the first freely elected president of Guinea handed Doré's transitional government on 22 December 2010, as expected, their resignations. As the successor to Jean -Marie Doré, Mohamed Saïd Fofana was named the new prime minister.

Publications

• Les grandes vagues ( = Collection " Flammèches ." No. 21). Grammar vivante, Genève 1974.
• Les immortels / dominant ( = Arabesques. No. 3). Grammar vivante, Geneve 1977.
• La résistance contre l' occupation coloniale en région forestière. Guinée 1800-1930. Harmattan, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-7475-8661-8.