Mathieu Kerekou | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 08/02/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_K%C3%A9r%C3%A9kou


00:00:46 1 Military background
00:01:43 2 1972 coup and single-party rule
00:05:21 3 Transition to democracy
00:08:22 4 1996 presidential election
00:09:36 5 Disputed re-election, 2001
00:11:38 6 Religion and symbolism
00:13:27 7 Retirement and death



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Mathieu Kérékou (French pronunciation: ​[ma.tjø ke.ʁe.ku]) (2 September 1933 – 14 October 2015) was a Beninese politician who served as President of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and again from 1996 to 2006. After seizing power in a military coup, he ruled the country for 19 years, for most of that time under an officially Marxist–Leninist ideology, before he was stripped of his powers by the National Conference of 1990. He was defeated in the 1991 presidential election but was returned to the presidency in the 1996 election and controversially re-elected in 2001.