President Deni Sassou Nguesso, re-elected for a fifth term was sworn in on Friday 16 April at the Palais des Congrès in Brazzaville.
It’s five more years of rule for the man nicknamed the “Emperor” by his Ivorian peer Alassane Ouattara.
Sassou Nguesso has accumulated 37 years of absolute power.
Winner in the first round of the election on March 21, the leader of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) said he was and will be “the president of all Congolese without exception.”
Sassou Nguesso, for whom “the work will not stop,” outlined the main lines of his action for this five-year term: consolidating the rule of law, improving the business climate, fighting corruption, diversifying the economy and developing human capital.
In his inaugural speech, the Congolese president pledged “to promote social and inclusive governance.”
He said this should take shape with the advent of “a protective state” which will work particularly for “electricity and water for all, universal health insurance and inclusive education.”
Denis Sassou Nguesso promised to “provide all villages with more than 100 inhabitants with electricity, drinking water and health centres.”
According to the final results published by the Constitutional Court, he won the presidential election with 88.40 percent of the valid votes cast.
Félix Tshisekedi, Macky Sall, Bah N’Daw, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, Alassane Ouattara, Mohamed Bazoum, Idriss Déby Itno, Evariste Ndayishimiye, respectively presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Mali, Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Niger, Chad and Burundi, attended his inauguration.
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