Mathieu Kérékou (born the September 2nd 1933 with Kourfa not far from Natitingou), is a Politician Bénin ois. He is the president of Benign October 26th 1972 with the April 4th 1991 and April 4th 1996 with the April 5th 2006.
Military life
After having studied in military academies with the Mali and the Senegal, Mathieu Kerekou entered the army. He was useful initially in the French Army then in the army of the Dahomey where he obtained the rank of major. He seized the power at the time of a coup d'etat the October 26th 1972. He made put in prison the three preceding presidents. In 1975, L then re-elected the country in Popular republic of Benign the and set up a Marxist government supervised by the National council of revolution (CNR). It led a policy of repression against all the opponents to the mode and especially against the intellectuals of which much had to take refuge abroad. He undertook a wave of Nationalization S of banks and oil industry. Into 1980, the “chameleon” is converted with the Islam and changed its first name for Ahmed, but it will adopt Mathieu again thereafter.
The politician
President of the Benign (ex- Dahomey) of the October 26th 1972 with the April 4th 1991 (communist Sole party of obedience). Following the popular demonstrations related to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mathieu Kérékou gives up the ideology Marxist-Leninist in 1989. Following the " Speech of Baule" of François Mitterrand in 1990, calling with the democratization of Africa, Kérékou is the first president of the continent to open the way with the multi-party system under the pressure of the street and the students, after having directed the country in an authoritative way. In 1991 it accepts the principle of a national conference which must equip the country with a Constitution and on the behavior of free elections. The end of this dictatorship leaves the country completely ruined and the empty cases of the state.It is beaten at the time of the presidential election of 1991 by Nicéphore Soglo. Then, it returns to the capacity following democratic elections the April 4th 1996 then in March 2001. This last poll was entâché of frauds. It could not represent at the end of its mandate in 2006.
Contrary to other African Heads of State, under the pressure of the media, the intellectuals and the public opinion Kérékou could not modify the Constitution which limits the age to which it is possible to reach the presidency like making more than two mandates. Nicéphore Soglo undergoes the same constraint of age.
Little before the poll and after the results the first turn, Kérékou let plane a doubt about its regularity, not confirmed by the international observers, which could let suggest some reserves of Kérékou to give up the capacity. Nevertheless, the elections of March 2006 proceed normally, and the election of Yayi Boni puts an end to thirty years capacity of Mathieu Kérékou.
Kérékou, under pressure of Guy Warp end, Africa adviser of French president François Mitterrand, was constrained to accept freemasonry with the Benign one.
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