19 Facts About Isidore Mvouba

Isidore Mvouba was born on 1954 and is a Congolese politician who was Prime Minister of Congo-Brazzaville from 2005 to 2009.

Isidore Mvouba is a member of the Congolese Labour Party and held key positions under President Denis Sassou Nguesso beginning in 1997.

Isidore Mvouba has been President of the National Assembly since 2017.

Isidore Mvouba was born at Kindamba, located in the Pool Region, and became a railways engineer, working at the Congo-Ocean Railway beginning in 1976.

When Sassou Nguesso stood as the PCT's candidate in the August 1992 presidential election, Isidore Mvouba served as his campaign director; Sassou Nguesso was badly defeated, placing third in the election.

Pascal Lissouba, who won the election and succeeded Sassou Nguesso as president, invited Isidore Mvouba to take up a ministerial post in the government formed after the election, but Isidore Mvouba refused.

The civil war resulted in Sassou Nguesso's return to power in October 1997, and Isidore Mvouba was appointed as Director of the Cabinet of the Head of State at the end of the same month.

Isidore Mvouba held that post until being appointed as Minister of Transport, Civil Aviation, and the Merchant Marine on 12 January 1999.

Subsequently, in the government named on 18 August 2002, Isidore Mvouba was promoted to the position of Minister of State for Transport, Privatization and Coordination of Government Action.

Isidore Mvouba was appointed as Prime Minister, responsible for coordination of government action and privatization, on 7 January 2005.

Isidore Mvouba was appointed as Prime Minister even though the 2002 constitution did not provide for that position.

At the time of the June 2008 local elections, Isidore Mvouba was President of the National Coordination of the Rally of the Presidential Majority, the coalition supporting Sassou-Nguesso.

The government was reorganized into four broad sectors, with one minister assigned responsibility for coordinating each of the four sectors; Isidore Mvouba was one of the ministers chosen as a coordinator and was assigned the basic infrastructure sector.

Isidore Mvouba remained Acting Secretary-General of the PCT until 2011, when Pierre Ngolo was elected as Secretary-General at the PCT's sixth extraordinary congress.

At the congress, held in July 2011, Isidore Mvouba remained a member of the PCT Political Bureau.

In 2013, Isidore Mvouba spent over five months in Paris for health reasons.

Isidore Mvouba eventually returned to Congo-Brazzaville on 19 September 2013.

Isidore Mvouba was succeeded at his ministry by Gilbert Ondongo on 4 May 2016.

Isidore Mvouba was the only candidate for the post and received 144 votes.