Bello Bouba Maigari Luc Ayang Sadou Hayatou Simon Achidi Achu Peter Mafany Musonge Ephraïm Inoni Philémon Yang Joseph Ngute
Preceded by
Ahmadou Ahidjo
1st Prime Minister of Cameroon
In office 30 June 1975 – 6 November 1982
President
Ahmadou Ahidjo
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Bello Bouba Maigari
Personal details
Born
Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo
(1933-02-13) 13 February 1933 (age 91) Mvomeka'a, Ntem, French Cameroon (now Cameroon)
Political party
RDPC
Spouses
Jeanne-Irène Biya
(m. 1961; died 1992)
Chantal Vigouroux
(m. 1994)
Children
3
Education
National School of Administration, Paris Institute of Political Studies, Paris
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Paul Biya (born Paul Barthélemy Biya'a bi Mvondo; 13 February 1933) is a Cameroonian politician who is the second president of Cameroon since 6 November 1982, having previously been the prime minister of Cameroon from 1975 to 1982.[1][2] He is the second-longest-ruling president in Africa, the longest consecutively serving current non-royal national leader in the world and the oldest head of state in the world. He is regarded as an authoritarian leader and dictator.
A native of Cameroon's south, Biya rose rapidly as a bureaucrat under President Ahmadou Ahidjo in the 1960s, as Secretary-General of the Presidency from 1968 to 1975 and then as Prime Minister. He succeeded Ahidjo as President upon the latter's surprise resignation in 1982 and consolidated power in a 1983–1984 staged attempted coup in which he eliminated all of his major rivals.[3]
Biya introduced political reforms within the context of a one-party system in the 1980s, later accepting the introduction of multiparty politics in the early 1990s under serious pressure. He won the contentious 1992 presidential election with 40% of the plural, single-ballot vote and was re-elected by large margins in 1997, 2004, 2011, and 2018. Opposition politicians and Western governments have alleged voting irregularities and fraud on each of these occasions. Many independent sources have provided evidence that he did not win the elections in 1992 and that subsequent elections suffered from rampant fraud.[4]
^Profile of Biya at Cameroonian presidency web site (in French).
^Biography at 2004 presidential election web site Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
^Emvana, Michel Roger (2005). Paul Biya: les secrets du pouvoir (in French). KARTHALA Editions. ISBN 978-2-84586-684-3.
^"Elections. La fraude "made in Cameroon" fait fureur". www.cameroonvoice.com. 29 October 2012.
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