Maurice Mavoungou

Maurice Mavoungou is a Congolese politician. Since 2002, he has been a Deputy in the National Assembly of Congo-Brazzaville.

Political career

Under President Pascal Lissouba, Mavoungou served as Director of Protocol during the 1990s.^[1][2] Later, in January 2002, he was appointed to head the gas subsidiary of the National Petroleum Company of the Congo (Société nationale des pétroles du Congo, SNPC).^[1] Standing as an independent candidate in the May–June 2002 parliamentary election, he won the seat for the third constituency of Lumumba, a section of Pointe-Noire, in the second round of voting.^[3]

In the June 2007 parliamentary election, Mavoungou stood for re-election as an independent candidate in the third constituency of Pointe-Noire's Lumumba district. He placed second in the first round, receiving 34.31% of the vote against 39.89% for Jérôme Balou, the candidate of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT); because neither candidate won a majority, they faced each other in a second round of voting, held in August 2007.^[4] Initial second round results from the local electoral commission showed Balou winning the seat with 54.98% of the vote against 45.02% for Mavoungou,^[5] but in the results subsequently proclaimed on 9 August by François Ibovi, the Minister of Territorial Administration, Mavoungou was declared the winner. In contrast to the other seats, Ibovi did not give numerical results for the constituency and simply declared that Mavoungou had won.^[5][6]

According to Ibovi, the votes from two polling stations were not included in the initial results, but he said that problem had been corrected, without identifying the percentages of the vote received by the candidates under the revised calculation. The anomaly of declaring a candidate elected without identifying his share of the vote was noted, and Balou declared that he was the actual winner, in line with the results from the local electoral commission. The confusion was reportedly due to the confiscation of two ballot boxes by soldiers after voting took place; although the ballot boxes were later returned, they appeared to have been affected by tampering and consequently it was agreed that they would not be counted. In the absence of those ballot boxes, Balou won the second round, and Ibovi's announcement that Mavoungou had won, contrary to the expected result, produced some local confusion and tension.^[5]

Shortly after the National Assembly began meeting for its new parliamentary term, Mavoungou was designated as one of 26 members of an ad hoc commission that was assigned the task of reviewing the National Assembly's internal and financial regulations on 5 September 2007. Mavoungou was assigned to chair one of the ad hoc commission's two sub-commissions, the sub-commission on financial regulations.^[7] When that preliminary work was complete, Mavoungou was designated as First Vice-President of the National Assembly's Economy and Finance Commission on 18 September 2007.^[8]

Mavoungou was part of a delegation of Congolese deputies who visited Libya on 5–8 April 2008 as part of an effort to improve cooperation between the National Assembly and the General People's Congress of Libya.^[9]

In the National Assembly, Mavoungou was designated as President of the Congo-Germany Friendship Group on 10 April 2009; he replaced Serge-Michel Odzocki, who had been appointed to the government.^[10] Calling attention to the plight of unwed mothers, Mavoungou distributed kits of toys as Christmas gifts to more than 500 of them (ages 15 to 30) in his constituency on 24 December 2009.^[11]

On 5–6 February 2010, at the First Ordinary Congress of the Action and Renewal Movement (MAR)—a political party headed by Pointe-Noire Mayor Roland Bouiti-Viaudo—Mavoungou was elected to the party's 22-member Political Bureau.^[12] As the Delegate of the Political Bureau, Mavoungou led a MAR national membership drive that was launched in Pointe-Noire in May 2010 as part of an effort to revitalize the party.^[13][14] Mavoungou also expressed the party leadership's desire to see more debate as part of its plan to reinvigorate the party.^[14]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Maurice Mavoungou", Africa Energy Intelligence N°316, Africa Intelligence, 13 February 2002.
2. ^ Jeune Afrique (1997), page 10 (French).
3. ^ "Assemblée nationale : les élus du second tour et leur appartenance politique", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 28 June 2002 (French).
4. ^ Ya Sanza, "Législatives : La liste des duels du second tour", Congopage.com, 3 July 2007 (French).
5. ^ ^{a b c} Alphonse Tchitoumou, "Pourquoi n'a-t-on pas proclamé Jérôme Balou, élu, conformément aux résultats des urnes?", La Semaine Africaine, N° 2720, 21 August 2007, page 7 (French).
6. ^ "Les résultats des élections législatives, avant l'examen des contentieux électoraux", La Semaine Africaine, N° 2720, 21 August 2007, page 7 (French).
7. ^ Roger Ngombé, "Assemblée nationale. Une commission ad hoc est mise en place pour examiner le règlement intérieur et le règlement financier", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 5 September 2007 (French).
8. ^ Cyr Armel Yabbat-Ngo, "Les bureaux des commissions permanentes ont été enfin élus", La Semaine Africaine, N° 2729, 21 September 2007, page 5 (French).
9. ^ Thierry Noungou, "Un nouveau cadre de coopération entre les Parlements congolais et libyen", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville N°466, 15 April 2008, page 3 (French).
10. ^ Parfait Wilfried Douniama, "Les députés adoptent une proposition de loi sur la protection du patrimoine", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville N°713, 15 April 2009 (French).
11. ^ Bisu Mululu, "La situation des fillesmères interpelle la société et les pouvoirs publics", La Semaine Africaine, N° 2961, 15 January 2010 (French).
12. ^ "Le MAR vient de se démarquer de l’UPADS, du PCT, du RDPS, du MCDDI et de l’UDR-Mwinda", Talassa, 9 February 2010 (French).
13. ^ Paul Tchiomvo, "Lancement d'une campagne spéciale d'adhésion à Pointe-Noire", La Semaine Africaine, N° 2996, 21 May 2010, page 5 (French).
14. ^ ^{a b} Lucie Prisca Condhet, "Le parti « Mouvement, action et renouveau » opte pour sa redynamisation et la démocratie interne", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 20 May 2010 (French).

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