Jean-Claude Siapa Ivouloungou

Jean-Claude Siapa Ivouloungou is a Congolese politician. A member of the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UPADS), he is a Deputy in the National Assembly of the Republic of the Congo. When the Pan-African Parliament began meeting in March 2004, he became one of Congo's five members.[1]

Siapa Ivouloungou elected to the National Assembly in the 2002 parliamentary election as the UPADS candidate in Mayoko constituency, located in Niari Region; he won the seat in the first round with 54.38% of the vote.[2] He was re-elected to the National Assembly in the 2007 parliamentary election as the UPADS candidate in Mayoko constituency,[3][4] this time receiving 75% of the vote.[4]

As spokesman for UPADS, Ivouloungou denounced the Constitutional Court's June 2009 exclusion of UPADS candidate Ange Edouard Poungui from the July 2009 presidential election. He claimed that the decision, which was based on Poungui's lack of continuous residency for two years, was politically motivated, arguing that "over the last two years, all the candidates moved around, to visit family abroad, to fine tune their plans".[5]

References

  1. ^ List of members of the Pan-African Parliament (as of March 15, 2004), African Union website.
  2. ^ "Elections législatives : les 51 élus du premier tour", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, June 5, 2002 (French).
  3. ^ Gankama N'Siah, "Un mot sur les suffrages des élus du premier tour des législatives", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 17 July 2007 (French).
  4. ^ a b "Elections législatives : les 44 élus du premier tour", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 2 July 2007 (French).
  5. ^ "Congo bans 4 opposition candidates from vote", AFP, 19 June 2009.