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in December 2006.
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- Antoine Gizenga
Antoine Gizenga is a Congolese politician who was Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from December 30, 2006 to 10 October 2008...
, the 81 year old "patriarch" of CongoleseThe Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...
politics, and leader of the left-wing Unified Lumumbist Party ( or PALU), was appointed Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the CongoThe Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...
, by newly and democratically elected PresidentThe President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , is Congo's elected Head of State, and the ex officio "Supreme Commander" of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ....
Joseph KabilaJoseph Kabila Kabange is a Congolese politician who has been President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January 2001. He took office ten days after the assassination of his father, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila...
, following a pre-electoral agreement between the two politicians' political parties. Gizenga will be the first Prime Minister appointed under the new Congolese constitution, which allowed the installation of the first democratically elected, multiparty legislature since 1965, and the first ever President democratically elected by direct suffrage. (Reuters UK) |
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