Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo

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Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo OEE ONM (born 18 April 1955) is a Gabonaise lawyer who is the former romantic partner of Omar Bongo, the long-standing authoritarian ruler of Gabon. [1]

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She is the president of the Constitutional Court of Gabon (Cour Constitutionnelle de la Republique Gabonaise) since its foundation in 1991. [2] [3] [4]

She owns six properties in Dubai. [1] In 2013, she purchased a townhouse in the Silver Spring neighborhood of Washington D.C. for $1.5 million in cash. [5] She reportedly owns properties in France and South Africa. [5]

Personal life and education

Mborantsuo was born in Franceville on 18 June 1955. Her parents were Jean Dambangoye and Berthe Nouo. She won a "Miss Franceville" beauty pageant, and became the lover of the then president Omar Bongo, with whom she had two children. She studied law at the National University of Gabon (later Omar Bongo University), then gained a Masters in Public Finance at University of Paris II and a doctorate in constitutional law in 2005 at the University of Aix-en-Provence. [4] [2] Her doctoral thesis title was Cours constitutionnelles africaines et État de droit. [6]

Career

From 1983 to 1991 she was president of the Cour de Comptes of the Supreme Court of Gabon and taught law at Omar Bongo University. After taking part in the national conference of 1990 she was one of the writers of the country's new constitution, and became president of the newly-established constitutional court (the Constitutional Court of Gabon), a post she still holds as of January 2019. [2]

It has been suggested that she "contributed to the Constitutional Court's loss of legitimacy as an impartial institution" by making controversial decisions on the allegedly fraudulent presidential elections of 1993, 2009 and 2016 in which her former lover and then her step-son Ali Bongo Ondimba retained and gained the post of president. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "How Dirty Money Finds a Home in Dubai Real Estate - OCCRP". How Dirty Money Finds a Home in Dubai Real Estate - OCCRP. 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Président: Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo" (in French). Cour Constitutionnelle de la Republique Gabonaise. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  3. ↑ "Les Membres Actuels" (in French). Cour Constitutionnelle de la Republique Gabonaise. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 Yates, Douglas A. (2017). "Mborantsuo, Marie Madeleine (1955-)". Historical Dictionary of Gabon. Rowland and Littlefield. p. 303. ISBN   9781538110126 . Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  5. 1 2 Zalan, Emmanuel Freudenthal, Roshanak Taghavi, and Kira (2020). "Gabon's First Family Stashed Cash in DC Property". OCCRP.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ Catalogue record for thesis. Worldcat. OCLC   991870600 . Retrieved 4 February 2019.
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