Paul Toungui

Paul Toungui ( born September 7, 1950 in Okondja, province of Haut - Ogooué ) is a politician from Gabon.

Biography

After school he studied mathematics and graduated with a degree in France. In his subsequent career, he rose in 1983 to the Director General of the Institute of Economy and Finance, and held this office until 1990.

His political career began in 1990 when he was elected as a candidate of the former single party Parti Démocratique Gabonais (PDG ) of President Omar Bongo to the deputies of the National Assembly. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed in May 1990 as Minister of Finance and Budget in the cabinet of Prime Minister Casimir Oye- Mba. In a cabinet reshuffle in March 1994 he was Minister of Mines, Energy and oil, and held that post in the Cabinets of Oyé MBAs successors Paulin Obame Nguema and Jean -François Ntoutoume Emane to January 2002. In January 1999 he also took over the area of ​​water resources and in January 2001 received the title of Minister of State. In the parliamentary elections of 1996 and 2001, he was elected as a candidate of the PDG back to the deputies of the National Assembly.

As part of a Cabinet reshuffle Prime Minister Emane appointed him on 27 January 2002 to the Minister of State for the Economy, Finance, Budget and Privatization. In the parliamentary elections of 2006, he was elected to represent the constituency Okondja back to the deputies of the National Assembly. As finance minister, he was most recently also chairman of a group of 24 developing countries ( G24 ), which called for a greater say in the International Monetary Fund ( IMF) and the World Bank.

On 7 October 2008, he was named Emanes successor as Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, cooperation, la Francophonie and Regional Integration in the cabinet, and thus the successor of the appointed only in February 2008, Foreign Minister Laure Olga Gondjout that again previous to their office as Minister for Communications, Post, Telecommunications and New information Technologies returned. On 28 February 2012, he was replaced by Emmanuel Issoze - Ngondet.

Toungui since 1995, with the former Foreign Minister Pascaline Bongo Mferri, the daughter of the late President Omar Bongo, married. Due to the close family ties to the family Bongo he was temporarily named as successor to Omar Bongo. However, it was elected to succeed him as President as previously thought Bongos son Ali - Ben Bongo Ondimba.