Finance minister Romuald Wadagni has been named joint presidential candidate of the governing l'Union progressiste pour le renouveau (UPR) and Bloc Républicain (BR) for April 2026 – confirming President Patrice Talon will honour the constitutional two-term limit...
Still it remains to be seen whether that will translate into running again or whether the president will feel sufficiently comfortable to entrust a protégé such as finance minister Romuald Wadagni to continue his legacy...
One option was to try to change the constitution and run for a third term another was to install a controllable successor; Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni was tipped for the job (AC Vol 65 No 12 Talon flirts with a third term)...
His preferred successor is finance minister Romuald Wadagni who was formerly in a key role in the financial management of the Talon business empire and could as head of state be relied on to ensure the state continued to protect its interests...
Macron was present alongside Ouattara to oversee the formal signing of the terms of the new system by French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and his Beninois counterpart Romuald Wadagni...