Edouard Franck

Edouard Franck also Frank , was Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (RDC) from 1991 to 1992 .

Political career

Franck is a lawyer, in 1986 he was a judge in the proceedings against the ex-president and ex-emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who had returned from exile .

He became Prime Minister on March 15, 1991 under President André Kolingba , who had ruled since 1981 , when the post that had been abolished ten years earlier was reinstated. He belonged to Kolingba's previous unity party Rassemblement Démocratique Centrafricain (RDC). The parliamentary and presidential elections of October 25, 1992 were canceled by the Supreme Court due to irregularities. His term of office ended on December 4, 1992.

Since the 1990s, during the presidency of Ange-Félix Patassé, he was first President of the Constitutional Court and later of the Supreme Court. In September 2004, President François Bozizé, who had been in power since March 2003, appointed him his legal advisor.