The Congolese Party of Labour (Parti congolais du Travail, PCT), founded in 1969 by Marien Ngouabi, is the ruling political party of the Republic of the Congo. It was originally a Marxist-Leninist pro-Soviet party, which founded the People's Republic of the Congo, but moved towards a less radical left wing stance in the early 1990s.
The party had about 70,000 members in 1990; by 2005, it had about 250,000 members.[1]
Denis Sassou Nguesso, presidential candidate of both the PCT and the United Democratic Forces, won the presidential election of March 10, 2002 with 89.4% of the vote. The PCT won 53 out of 137 seats in the National Assembly in the parliamentary election held on May 26 and June 23, 2002; together with smaller, allied parties, it held a parliamentary majority.
At the party's Fifth Extraordinary Congress in December 2006, Sassou-Nguesso was re-elected as President of the Central Committee of the PCT and Ambroise Noumazalaye was re-elected as Secretary-General of the PCT;[1][2] the Central Committee elected at the 2006 congress included more than 500 members (there were previously less than 150 members), while the Political Bureau elected on the same occasion included more than 60 members and the Permanent Secretariat included 15 members.[1] Noumazalaye died in November 2007,[3] and Prime Minister Isidore Mvouba became Interim Secretary-General of the PCT.[4]
In the parliamentary election held on June 24 and August 5, 2007, the PCT won 46 seats; along with its allies, it won a majority of 125 out of 137 seats.
References
- ^ a b c Emmanuel Mbengue, "La direction du Parti Congolais du Travail s'ouvre aux jeunes et aux femmes", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, December 30, 2006 (French).
- ^ Willy Mbossa, "Denis Sassou Nguesso reconduit à la tête du comité central du Parti congolais du travail", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, December 30, 2006 (French).
- ^ "Le président du Sénat, Ambroise Edouard Noumazalay est décédé à Paris", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, November 18, 2007 (French).
- ^ "La dépouille mortelle du président du Sénat attendue le 23 novembre à Brazzaville", Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, November 22, 2007 (French).
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