Adolphe Muzito

Infobox Prime Minister
name = Adolphe Muzito


order = Prime Minister of the Congo-Kinshasa
president = Joseph Kabila
term_start = 10 October 2008
predecessor = Antoine Gizenga
successor =
birth_date = 1957?
party = Unified Lumumbist Party

Adolphe Muzito (born 1957? [http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hIqIC0SJv-9FFXSMeyzUc-ET6f-w "DR Congo president names new prime minister: report"] , AFP, 10 October 2008.] ) is a Congolese politician who is currently the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Muzito, a member of the Unified Lumumbist Party (PALU), was previously Minister of the Budget under Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga from 2007 to 2008.

Muzito, who is from Bandundu, is an economist. In the government that was appointed on 5 February 2007, Muzito was included as Minister of the Budget. [ [http://www.afrik.com/article11161.html "Le nouveau gouvernement de la République Démocratique du Congo est constitué"] , Afrik.com, 6 February 2007 fr icon.] After Gizenga, the leader of PALU, resigned as Prime Minister on 25 September 2008 for reasons related to age and health, Muzito was appointed by President Joseph Kabila to succeed Gizenga on 10 October 2008.

ee also

* Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
* List of Prime ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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