Jean Bagasauo

**Jean Picard Bagasauo Jr**, better known as **Jean Bagasauo**, (June 16, 1962 -) was a Ducistian born politician, theologist and war criminal who served three non-consecutive terms as president of North Africa between May 2035 and September 2037, holding office for a combined period of a year and 351 days. Bagasauo also briefly served as vice president of North Africa for a month in 2035, and was the leader of the Christian Loyalist Party between June 2034 and September 2037.

Born in 1962 in the then Union of South Africa, Jean Bagasauo graduated from the University of Pretoria in 1986 with a degree in religious studies and would go on to become a prominent Christian cleric, known for his religious nationalism and social conservatism. After being deported from the Federation of Ducist in 2028, Bagasauo continued his preaching in Chad, before establishing the Christian Loyalist Party in June 2034 after the formation of the North African Federation.

As one of the most important African politicians during the Conquest of Africa, Jean Bagasauo was able to lead a takeover of the North African Federation in the summer of 2035 and installed himself as the federation's leader, effectively reigning as a dictator of the nation as the continent became embroiled in war. Despite leading a nation designed to combat the rise of the Bovido Imperium, President Jean Bagasauo was effectively a puppet leader for the Bovido regime, inviting High Admiral Torrent Koon to become his vice president on July 14, 2035. With Koon at his side, Bagasauo began a purge of the remaining high ranking military leaders of the federation, allowing Koon to bring in armed forces from the Bovido Imperium to act as the army and police forces of the NAF.

With President Jean Bagasauo temporarily incapacitated by an attempt on his life, Vice President Torrent Koon assumed full control over the nation in the evening of December 16, 2035. Following the 2036 Bovido Coup d'état, Vice President Koon began to implement draconian military policies which formally began to include the federation as a state of the Bovido Imperium, granting Koon ultimate authority over the province. After disputes following the controversial Treaty of Beijing, Torrent Koon fled the Bovido Imperium and assumed supreme power in the North African Federation, forcing Bagasauo to resign from the presidency. Under the Koon presidency, Bagasauo lived under house arrest in the capital of Omdurman.

Following the incapacitation of President Torrent Koon on September 2, 2036 during an assassination attempt, the North African Federation fell into a constitutional crisis, which saw the state of Sudan cede from the nation. In response, the federation congress reappointed Jean Bagasauo as president with congress president Lassina Zerbo as his deputy, though Zerbo would later defect to the People's Democratic Union for Self Government (UDPPA) rebel militia group in late November 2036. During his second presidency, Jean Bagasauo's government oversaw a descent into political chaos and a coup attempt in early 2037 left the nation divided between the Bagasauo government and the Patriotic National Military Administration headed by General Meles Zenawi. As a result civil war broke out in late January 2037, resulting in the region of Southern Sahara forming an independent state. Following a Shanghai Pact intervention into the conflict, the UDPPA captured the capital city of the Federation and forced Bagasauo to sign the Treaty of Kampala in August 2037, ending his presidency and dissolving the North African Federation. In the aftermath of his resignation, Jean Bagasauo was extradited to the Fox Dynasty to face a war crimes tribunal.

Remembered as one of the most important, if not divisive, leaders of the African continent during the Conquest of Africa, Jean Bagasauo's presidency was marked by deep rooted instability as his government's collaboration tendencies with the Bovido Imperium fractured the weak political links between the constituent states of the federation. Despite never actively fighting the Shanghai Pact until the North African Civil War in 2037, Bagasauo's regime actively collaborated in imposing draconian religious laws upon the population in accordance with the Faith, whilst Bagasauo himself personally and repeatedly advocated for annexation by the Bovido Imperium.

## History

Jean Bagasauo was born in June 1962 in Cape Town, South Africa during the period of apartheid rule and was subject to state-endorsed racism throughout his early years. With the eruption of the South African Civil War in the 1970s, Bagasauo's family fled Cape Town and defected to the ANC controlled Transvaal Republic, before returning to Cape Town in 1978 following the liberation of the region from white-minority rule. Under the new Federation of Ducist, Jean Bagasauo became the first in his family to attend university, and graduated from Pretoria University in 1986 with a degree in religious studies. Between 1987 and 2004, Bagasauo worked as a pastor in Pretoria, before eventually becoming a bishop by 2028. In 2031, the Ducistian government deported Bagasauo for his opposition to the presidency of Cyril Ramaphosa; after travelling to Chad in northern Africa, Jean Bagasauo continued to preach in churches across the country and became well known for his Christian nationalistic sermons

## Vice Presidency

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Beginning with the election of Jean Bagasauo to the office of Vice President of the North African Federation on February 5, 2035, a gradual slew of adherents to the Final Testament began to be elected to office across the federation, winning majorities in the state governments of Mali and Ivory Coast in late February of the same year. Likewise in the states of Eritrea and Sierra Leone in early March 2035, members of the Christian Loyalist party won majorities in all offices of state, leading to President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan calling for a state of emergency and halting elections scheduled for later in the year, leading to accusations that President al-Burhan was attempting to seize power in a self coup, and protests began to arise across the nation as citizens called for elections to be held as scheduled. Subsequently on March 29 the armed forces in Chad overthrew the Chadian House of Representatives, stating that their term in office had ended and that the armed forces would hold power until new elections were ordered by the president. With President al-Burhan's term in office due to end on April 1, 2035, Vice President Yayi Boni began to take over operations of the government in order to secure a peaceful transition, moving towards a more militant strategy to try to combat the growing wave of Bovido loyalists taking power by dissolving the remaining state assemblies and passing further powers to the executive offices of each individual state in order to try to consolidate power with the African Federalist party.

However as a result, the local armed forces in Nigeria and Togo took part in a coup d'état in their states on the night of May 3rd 2035, deposing the local governors and placing a Christian military regime in charge of the region; meanwhile in the federation capital of Khartoum, the government of President Yayi Boni began to disintegrate as Vice President Jean Bagasauo and his Christian Loyalist party began to obstruct Boni's legislative agenda, blocking a move to send federal military forces to the states under insurgent control whilst also changing rules on presidential powers through congress to allow the impeachment of a president with a simple majority of 9 out of 17 state governors on May 14th, 2035. In the aftermath of this rule change, Vice President Jean Bagasauo motioned for an impeachment bill to be launched on May 16, 2035, securing the support of 8 state governors in regions controlled by the Christian Loyalist Party, falling short by one vote. On May 17, Governor Riek Machar of Sudan was assassinated in the street by an unidentified assailant, making way for Machar's deputy Salva Kiir Mayardit to take over the leadership of the state, subsequently voting for the motion of impeachment the same day, giving way to allegations that Riek Machar's murder was politically motivated.

## Presidencies

### First Presidency (2035)

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With President Yayi Boni declared to be impeached by the council of governors on May 18, 2035, Vice President Jean Bagasauo assumed the powers of the presidency the same day; having effectively led a constitutional coup against Boni, Bagasauo dissolved the state governments of the regions and began to consolidate power to the presidency, before establishing the Presidential Council of the North African Federation on May 23, 2035 as a collective head of state with all Christian Loyalist and military governors present, temporarily making the presidency itself vacant, though Jean Bagasauo as the leader of the council continued to serve within the same capacity as *de-facto* head of state.

### Second Presidency (2035 - 2036)

On June 12, 2035, President Jean Bagasauo was targeted by a bombing attack at the headquarters of the Presidential Council in Khartoum which assassinated many of the military leaders of the council but left Bagasauo himself largely unharmed. With no military leadership in the NAF, President Bagasauo dissolved the council and turned to his allies in the Bovido Imperium to broker an agreement for soldiers of the Imperium to act as the military forces of the federation, with High Admiral Torrent Koon taking up office as vice president of the federation on July 14, 2035.  At a speech to celebrate the NAF's alliance with the Bovido Imperium on December 16, 2035, several shots were fired at Bagasauo, hitting the president in the chest and arm before the would-be assassin was apprehended by Bovido security forces. With President Jean Bagasauo temporarily incapacitated by the attempt on his life, Vice President Torrent Koon assumed full control over the nation in the evening of December 16th - under Vice President Torrent Koon's effective reign, Bagasauo was sent into hiding with Koon governing in his name. Following a split within the Bovido Imperium's political elite, Torrent Koon was forced into exile from the Imperium and engaged in a self-coup in the North African Federation, forcing Jean Bagasauo to resign his position as president in order to allow Koon to formally consolidate his power.

### Third Presidency (2036 - 2037)

Following President Koon's incapacitation in early September 2036, the North African Congress formally impeached Koon in late September after the state of Sudan ceded from the federation; as such Jean Bagasauo was reinstated as president, whilst congressional leader Lassina Zerbo was selected as vice president on September 28, 2036. The federation fell into political crisis as the People's Democratic Union for Self Government (UDPPA) rebel group began to advocate for the toppling of the regime, whilst the North African armed forces under the leadership of General Meles Zenawi attempted to stop President Bagasauo surrendering recently annexed lands to the Bovido Imperium. In November 2036, Vice Presidnet Zerbo defected to the UDPPA. In late December 2036, Bagasauo negotiated the Banjul Treaty which saw the federation pledge to return annexed lands to the Bovido Imperium and extradite Torrent Koon to face justice in the imperium - in response, the armed forces launched a coup and attempted to depose Bagasauo; despite failing to capture the government, the armed forces were able to capture the city of Banjul and forced the government to relocate to Yamoussoukro. In the military controlled regions, General Meles Zenawi was proclaimed as president of the North African Federation and established the Patriotic National Military Administration as a rival military junta government.

## See Also

* North African Federation
* Conquest of Africa
* North African Civil War