Jean-Marie Doré

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Jean-Marie Doré (born June 12, 1938 in Bossou , Lola prefecture , † January 29, 2016 ) was a Guinean politician. As chairman of the Union pour le Progrès de la Guinée (UPG), he was one of the leading opposition politicians . In January 2010 Doré was appointed prime minister of a transitional government that, one year after the military coup by Moussa Dadis Camara , who fled an assassination attempt in December 2009, prepared the transition to democracy with the 2010 presidential elections .

biography

Jean-Marie Doré was born in the Forest Guinea region. He studied law in Lyon and specialized in labor law on his return to Guinea . In the 1970s he accepted a post at the International Labor Organization in Geneva, while at the same time he took up a degree in political science . After a stay in Germany, Doré returned to Guinea in 1988 and founded a transport company there .

In the early 1990s, Doré founded the opposition party UPG, for which he ran in the 1993 and 1998 presidential elections. In 1998 Doré received only 1.7% of the votes cast. In the parliamentary elections in 2002 , the UPG was one of the few opposition parties that did not boycott the elections. In retrospect, however, it refused to accept the three seats it had won as the second largest opposition party.

When a military junta under Moussa Dadis Camara took power in December 2008 after the death of long-time President Lansana Conté , Doré became spokesman for the Forum des Forces Vives (FFV) opposition alliance. Doré became the liaison of the opposition to Camara, as both came from Forest Guinea.

On September 28, 2009, riots broke out in the capital, Conakry , when an opposition rally was violently suppressed by the military. More than 150 people were killed in the massacre and Doré was seriously injured.

After the incumbent President Camara was seriously injured in an assassination attempt in December 2009, Vice President Sékouba Konaté took over the office and effectively disempowered Camara, who had fled abroad. He immediately started negotiations with the opposition to set up a transitional government. In a battle vote within the FFV, Doré narrowly prevailed against the trade unionist Rabiatou Serah Diallo and was named as a candidate for the office of head of government. Konaté agreed to the proposal and commissioned Doré on January 19, 2010 to form a government. The aim was to prepare for democratic presidential elections, which were to be held within six months.

The first round of the presidential elections took place on June 27, 2010, and in the run-off election on October 24, 2010, the long-standing opposition leader Alpha Condé prevailed against former Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo . After Condé was sworn in as the first freely elected President of Guinea, Doré's interim government, as expected, submitted its resignation on December 22, 2010. Mohamed Saïd Fofana was appointed as the new Prime Minister to succeed Jean-Marie Doré .

Publications

  • Les grandes vagues (= Collection "Flammèches". No. 21). Poésie vivante, Genève 1974.
  • Les immortels / domi (= Arabesques. No. 3). Poésie vivante, Geneve 1977.
  • The resistance against the occupation coloniale en région forestière. Guinée 1800-1930. Harmattan, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-7475-8661-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AFP : Power struggle in Guinea after the death of President Conté , December 22, 2008.
  2. ↑ The Standard : “They Tried to Kill Us All,” September 29, 2009.
  3. ↑ BBC News : Guinea junta 'names civilian Dore as prime minister' , January 19, 2010.
  4. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : Civilian Head of Government in Guinea , January 20, 2010.
  5. ↑ Focus : Conde wins presidential election , November 16, 2010.
  6. ↑ AFP : Guinea's transitional government steps down ( Memento from January 2, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) , December 22, 2010.
  7. ↑ Reuters : Conde names ex-official as Guinea prime minister , December 24, 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Doré, Jean-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guinean politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bossou
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2016