Marcel Moufouma-Okia

Marcel Moufouma-Okia is a Congolese politician. He has served in the Senate of Congo-Brazzaville since 2002.

During the 1970s, Moufouma-Okia was included on the Confederal Executive Committee of the Congolese Trade Union Confederation (CSC).^[1][2]

Moufouma-Okia was elected to the Central Committee of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) at its Fourth Ordinary Congress, held on 26–31 July 1989.^[3] In July 2002, he was elected to the Senate as a PCT candidate in Lekoumou Region.^[4] When the Senate began meeting, he was designated as First Vice-President of the Senate's Commission for Education, Culture, Science and Technology, Health, Employment, and Social Affairs on 23 August 2002.^[5] He was re-elected to that post on 11 October 2005.^[6]

Standing for re-election as a candidate of the Rally of the Presidential Majority (RMP) coalition in Lekoumou Department, Moufouma-Okia again won a seat in the indirect August 2008 Senate election; he received 20 votes from the electors, thereby winning the last of Lekoumou's six available seats.^[7]

Following the October 2011 Senate election, Moufouma-Okia was re-elected as First Vice-President of the Senate's Education, Science, Culture, Information, and Technology Commission on 24 October 2011.^[8]

References

1. ^ Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa, issues 1,310–1,321 (1973), Joint Publications Research Service, page 9.
2. ^ Trade Unions and the Lomé Convention (1978), page 44.
3. ^ Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga, Les voies du politique au Congo: essai de sociologie historique (1997), Karthala Editions, page 294 (French).
4. ^ "Elections sénatoriales : les résultats officiels rendus publics à Brazzaville", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 13 July 2002 (French).
5. ^ "Sénat: mise en place des bureaux des commissions permanentes", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 27 August 2002 (French).
6. ^ "Le sénat poursuit le réaménagement de ses structures", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 12 October 2005 (French).
7. ^ "Résultats des élections sénatoriales dans sept départements", La Semaine Africaine, number 2,815, 8 August 2008, page 3 (French).
8. ^ Parfait Wilfried Douniama, "Sénat : une nouvelle femme fait son entrée au bureau en qualité de deuxième vice-présidente", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 24 October 2011 (French).