Education
After having finished secondary school he had to join the army in order to continue studying. He got military education by having attended military courses in the Central African Republic and Algeria and in College of Arms in France.
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After having finished secondary school he had to join the army in order to continue studying. He got military education by having attended military courses in the Central African Republic and Algeria and in College of Arms in France.
In 1968 Denis Sassou Nguesso took part in an armed coup, in the result of which Marien Ngouabi came to power. Denis held the post of the Secretary of Defense during him ruling the country, and after his assassination Denis temporarily performed the duties of the President since March 12 till April 2, 1977; at the same time he was the head of the Military Committee of the Congolese Labour Party (the CLP). He was replaced by Joachim Yhombi-Opango in 1977, who gave Denis Sassou Nguesso the title of Colonel.
Being accused for corruption and political failure, Joachim Yhombi-Opango was removed from power in 1979. The Military Committee of the CLP elected Sassou Nguesso as its leader and the Third Extraordinary Party Congress proclaimed his the President. Since then Sassou Nguesso has been irremovably ruling the country, he left the post only once but on his own free will and not for a long period of time.
The leader of the nation showed his political rationalism in the very beginning of his career. Sassou Nguesso, the President of the People’s Republic of Congo, the President of the Council, the Chairman of the Central Committee of the CLP, came to the USSR on an official visit in May, 1981 and signed together with Leonid Brezhnev the Treaty of Friendship for a period of 20 years. But when the implementation of the first five-year plan of Congo’s development failed, Marxist Sassou Nguesso started negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and almost immediately fulfilled the set-out conditions. He expanded democratic freedoms, undertook a range of severe economic measures, he allowed businessmen from France and the USA to invest money into spheres vital for the country, i.e. the oil industry and developing of other mineral recourses.
When democratic processes were strengthening in February, 1991, Sassou Nguesso gradually moved away from power and made way for Andre Milongo, who was appointed as the temporary President of the Socialist Republic of Congo before the elections that were to be geld in 1992. The state’s name the Republic of Congo was restored in March, 1991.
In 1993 a civil war began in Congo and Sassou Nguesso together with his family had to leave the country. He emigrated to Paris and there he starts preparing for the next presidential elections that were to be held in June, 1997. But when he returned to his homeland, a few weeks before the elections, the President of the State Pascal Lissouba ordered to his military forces to troop around the former leader’s residence in Brazzaville and to storm the building. The military units that stayed loyal to Sassou Nguesso were insistently resisting, and also Angola helped him. As the result the allies of the former leader managed to capture the capital in October, 1997. Pascal Lissouba fled the country, and Denis Sassou Nguesso was proclaimed the President of the Republic of Congo on October 25, 1997.
He is not only a long-liver on political Olympus of the Republic of Congo, he’s also an example of pragmatism in conducting policy of the state. He had been building exemplary socialism for 13 years since 1979 till 1992, adopting experience of the Soviet Union and Cuba and accepting their generous help. After the USSR and the whole socialistic system had collapsed, Denis Sassou Nguesso, being supported by France and the USA, proceeded with the same optimism to the creation of market economy.
The Congolese Party of Labour 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 moderate left wing stance in the early 1990-s.
Denis Sassou Nguesso considers stabilization of political situation in the country, developing of democracy, modernization of industrial infrastructure, improving of level of welfare of the nation and medical service to be the main courses of the home policy. But still the Republic of Congo as many other African countries, has economic difficulties that the President can’t overcome yet.
