Even former speaker and prime minister Adrien Houngbédji a fixture of Beninois politics since 1990 who had thrown in his lot with Talon found that his Parti du renouveau démocratique (PRD) lost all its seats (AC Vol 62 No 8 Talons out for the opposition)...
At parliamentary elections on 28 April 2019 the only opposition group to satisfy these rules was the Parti du Renouveau Démocratique (PRD) of the outgoing speaker Adrien Houngbédji...
Outside observers fell for the illusion of his apparent invincibility as did one of the country's most experienced and popular opposition veterans National Assembly Speaker Adrien Houngbédji...
He has also won the endorsement of the Parti du renouveau démocratique (PRD) led by National Assembly Speaker and former Premier Adrien Houngbédji and the Renaissance du Bénin (RB) of the Mayor of Cotonou Léhady Soglo...
The third contender is Adrien Houngbédji a former Prime Minister and twice Speaker of the National Assembly who has lost every presidential race since pluralist democracy was established in 1991...
The incumbent President Thomas Yayi Boni and the third contender Adrien Houngbédji a former Prime Minister and twice Speaker of the National Assembly will make formidable opponents however...
Vol 48 No 10 |
- PARLIAMENTS
This apparent victory did not solve the President's problems; in the 83-seat Assembly the FCBE took 35 seats while the Alliance pour une Dynamique Démocratique (which includes former President Nicéphore Soglo's Parti de la Renaissance du Bénin) took 20 seats and ten went to the Parti du Renouveau Démocratique led by Adrien Houngbédji who was President of the National Assembly in 1999-2003...
The result on 19 March accepted by all was the election at the second round of Yayi Boni with nearly 75 per cent of the vote to 25 per cent for Adrien Houngbedji (AC Vol 47 No 1)...
Vol 47 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
If elections happen the probable winner would be another northerner Yayi Boni President of the Francophone Banque Ouest-Afrcaine de Développement (BOAD) rather than the most prominent southern contender Adrien Houngbedji defeated candidate in the last two presidential elections in 1996 and 2001...
The other main opposition party is the Parti du Renouveau Démocratique (PRD) of Adrien Houngbédji President of the National Assembly and Co-President of the African Caribbean Pacific/European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly (see Pointer)...