Paul Toungui
Paul Toungui (born September 7, 1950 in Okondja , Haut-Ogooué province ) is a politician from Gabon .
biography
After attending school, he studied mathematics , which he completed with an academic degree in France . In his subsequent professional career, he was promoted to general director of the Institute for Economics and Finance in 1983 and held this position until 1990.
He began his political career in 1990 when he was elected as a member of the National Assembly by President Omar Bongo as a candidate for the former unity party Parti Démocratique Gabonais (PDG) . Shortly afterwards, in May 1990, he was appointed Minister of Finance and Budget in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Casimir Oyé-Mba . As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he became Minister for Mining, Energy and Oil in March 1994 and also held this position in the cabinets of Oyé-Mba's successors Paulin Obame Nguema and Jean-François Ntoutoume Emane until 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 re-elected as a candidate for the PDG as a member of the National Assembly.
As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Emane appointed him Minister of State for Economy, Finance, Budget and Privatization on January 27, 2002. In the 2006 general election, he was re-elected to the National Assembly as a representative of the Okondja constituency. As finance minister, he was most recently also chairman of a group of 24 developing countries (G24), which demanded more say in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank .
On October 7, 2008, Emane's successor as Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong appointed him Minister of State for Foreign Affairs , Cooperation, Francophonie and Regional Integration in his cabinet and thus the successor to Laure Olga Gondjout , who was only appointed Foreign Minister in February 2008 , who returned to her previous position Office as Minister for Communications, Post, Telecommunications and New Information Technologies returned. On February 28, 2012, he was replaced by Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet .
Toungui has been married to the former Foreign Minister Pascaline Mferri Bongo , the daughter of the late President Omar Bongo, since 1995 . Due to the close family ties to the Bongo family , he was also named as the successor to Omar Bongo at times. However, as previously suspected, Bongo's son Ali-Ben Bongo Ondimba was elected as his successor as president.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ INTERGOVERNMENTAL GROUP OF TWENTY-FOUR ON INTERNATIONAL MONETARY AFFAIRS AND DEVELOPMENT ( Memento from July 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Collapse of UN, World Bank and International Monetary Fund eminent if developing nations not given fair share of say ( Memento from September 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Bongo dynasty likely to continue ( Memento from July 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Toungui, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Gabonese politician of the PDG |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Okondja , Haut-Ogooué province |