President of Anjouan

The President of Anjouan is the head of the autonomous government of Anjouan, one of the islands in the Comoros. The position was established in 2002 following the adoption of the Comorian Constitution of 2001.

Mohamed Bacar held the position from 14 April 2002 to 26 April 2007, when the country's Federal Constitutional Court declared his remaining in office after his term ended on 14 April illegal. Two days later, Comorian president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi appointed Kaambi Houmadi as interim president of Anjouan. Houmadi was replaced by Dhoihirou Halidi on 11 May 2007. This solution was rejected by Bacar, who held his own elections in June which, unsurprisingly, he won in a landslide. Subsequently there was a stand off between the federal Comoros government and Anjouan. In February 2008 the government of the Union of Comoros declared it had failed to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis and organised an armed intervention on 25 March 2008 which quickly seized back control of the island. Ikililou Dhoinine, one of the federation's vice presidents, was appointed as interim leader of Anjouan on 26 March 2008. On 30 March, Lailizamane Abdou Cheik, who was head of Anjouan's Court of Appeal (and was therefore the constitutional successor to the Presidency in the event of a vacancy), was appointed as Interim President; he was sworn in on 31 March. [ [http://apanews.net/apa.php?page=show_article_eng&id_article=59235 "Lailizamane Abdou Cheik becomes Anjouan’s Interim President"] , African Press Agency, 30 March 2008.]

Following the presidential elections held in June 2008, Moussa Toybou was sworn in as President on 5 July 2008.

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