Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo

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Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo (born April 18, 1955 in Franceville , Gabon ) is a Gabonese lawyer and President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Gabon. She has held the office since the court was founded in 1991.

education

Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo attended the Catholic School St-Hilaire in Franceville , the Collège Notre-Dame de la Salette in Koula-Moutou and the Lycée d'Etat de Franceville, where she graduated from high school. She then studied law at the Université Nationale du Gabon and graduated with a master's degree. Mborantsuo studied at the Institut international d'administration publique in Paris and at the Université Panthéon-Assas and graduated with a diploma ( Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies en Finances Publiques, Fiscalité et Droit Constitutionnel ).

Political career

Back in Gabon, she initially worked as an advisor to the planning minister ( ministre de la Planification ) and also taught law at the university. In 1983, at the age of 28, she was given a seat in the Supreme Court of Gabon. In 1991 she took over the highest office of the constitutional court in Gabon. The position is politically relevant, as the court determines the vacancy of the highest state office and can schedule new elections .

Her decision to change the constitution after President Ali-Ben Bongo Ondimba fell ill and disappeared from the public eye on October 24, 2018, and to appoint Vice-President Pierre Claver Maganga Moussavou instead of President of the Senate, led to internal unrest , violent protests from the opposition and irritations abroad.

Private

Before starting her political career, she worked as a mannequin and was elected Miss Haut-Ogooué . Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo has two children from Omar Bongo and another from another relationship.

Awards

  • Commandeur de la Legion d'honneur, France

Publications

  • La contribution des Cours constitutionnelles à l'Etat de droit en Afrique . Paris: Economica 2007. ISBN 978-2-71785307-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo. Agence News Press, September 14, 2016, accessed January 11, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ a b It's 'Dallas' in Gabon as country awaits key vote ruling Mail-online, September 14, 2016, accessed January 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ The coup that wasn't. taz , January 7, 2019, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
  4. ^ Troops land in Gabon. Tense situation after constitutional amendment Junge Welt , November 21, 2018, accessed on January 13, 2019.
  5. ^ Politique Gabon: portrait de Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo. Jeune Afrique , September 22, 2016, accessed on January 13, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Mborantsuo, Marie-Madeleine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gabonese lawyer and President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Gabon
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Franceville , Gabon