Kamarou Fassassi, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Kamarou Fassassi

Beninese politician

Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1948

Date of Death: 04-Dec-2016

Profession: politician

Nationality: Benin

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Kamarou Fassassi

  • Kamarou Fassassi (October 10, 1948 – December 4, 2016) was a Beninese politician.Fassassi was born in Porto-Novo.
  • He was Director of the Cabinet of the President of the National Assembly of Benin, Adrien HoungbĂ©dji, from 1992 to 1995, and he was elected to the National Assembly in the March 1995 parliamentary election.
  • When Mathieu KĂ©rĂ©kou returned to the Presidency in 1996, Fassassi became Minister of Public Works and Transport, serving in that position until 1998.
  • He was again elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of the Democratic Renewal Party in the March 1999 parliamentary election, but in 2000 he formed a new party, the Party of the Awakening of the Democrats of the New Generation (Parti du RĂ©veil de DĂ©mocrates de la Nouvelle GĂ©nĂ©ration, PRD-Nouvelle GĂ©nĂ©ration), which supported the re-election of President KĂ©rĂ©kou in the March 2001 presidential election.
  • In May 2001 he was appointed Minister of Mines, Energy and Hydraulics, serving until April 2006, when Yayi Boni became President. Fassassi was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of the Union for Future Benin in the March 2003 parliamentary election.
  • In Copargo in January 2006, he announced that he would be the PRD-Nouvelle GĂ©nĂ©ration's candidate in the March 2006 presidential election, saying that he wanted to defend KĂ©rĂ©kou's legacy.
  • In the election, which Boni won, Fassassi took ninth place with 0.98% of the vote. He died on December 4, 2016 at CNHU (national university hospital center).

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