Sylvestre Ilunga

Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba (* 1947 in Katanga , Belgian Congo ; according to other sources as the second surname Ilukamba ) has been Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since May 20, 2019 . Before that, he held positions in teaching, politics and economics.

Life

Ilunga received his doctorate in economics from the University of Kinshasa in 1979 and then took up a teaching position there. He was politically active for the first time as early as 1970. In the 1980s and 1990s he held several ministerial offices. After several positions as Vice Minister, he was Minister of Planning in 1990 and Minister of Finance from 1990 to 1991 under Mobutu Sese Seko . From 1993 to 2003 he worked as an associate director of RETINEX, an import and export company for non-ferrous metals . From 2003 to 2014 he worked as Executive Director for the Comité pour la réforme des enterprises du portefeuille des États (COPIREP). From 2014 he headed the Congolese State Railways (SNCC). Ilunga belongs to the Parti du Peuple pour la Reconstruction et la Démocratie , the party of long-time President Joseph Kabila .

In 2019, Ilunga was proposed as Prime Minister by Kabila, whose party had won a majority in the National Assembly after a controversial election in December 2018 . President Félix Tshisekedi , whose party won only a few seats in parliament, accepted the proposal. The former Prime Minister Bruno Tshibala then submitted his resignation.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Nomination du Premier minstre: Le Choix du Professor Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba. congovox.com of May 19, 2019 (French), accessed June 4, 2019