ACP representatives and some European diplomats told Africa Confidential the Assembly's European Co-President Glenys Kinnock had not consulted her ACP Co-President Benin's Adrien Houngbédji (see Feature)...
Adrien Houngbedji President of the Assemblée Nationale took 13...
Alliances with the small but solid regional parties are crucial in Benin and for now at least Soglo appears to have the support of the mercurial parliamentary speaker Adrien Houngbédji whose Parti du Renouveau Démocratique dominates the south-east around Porto Novo...
Apithy's old power base in the south-east (Ouémé and Atlantique) was fought over by the southern barons notably Adrien Houngbedji (a lawyer exiled by Kérékou to Gabon in 1975 after being accused of plotting against the government) and Albert Tevoedjré (former Deputy Director General of the International Labour Organisation) both of whom had support in the historic capital Porto Novo...
Indeed some in Washington take seriously reports that French officials contributed around US$4 million to an anti- Soglo election fund – targeted at the smaller parties particularly Adrien Houngbedji' s Parti du Renouveau Démocratique – during Benin's recent polls (AC Vol 37 No 7)...
Soglo has two albatrosses: the structural adjustment programme and what Adrien Houngbedji (third with 402 603 votes) calls his 'arrogance'...
Adrien Houngbedji leads the Parti du Renouveau Démocratique which did well at the last parliamentary elections in March-May 1995...
