RE:CAMEROONIAN MARTIN CHUNGONG ELECTED Secretary General -> Inter-Parliamentary Union

 

News Release

First ever African elected as IPU Secretary General

Geneva, 20 March 2014

Cameroonian Martin Chungong has been elected as the new Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the first African to hold the post in its125-year history.

A record attendance of IPU Members made their choice on the closing day of the 130^th IPU Assembly in Geneva.

Chungong, who is the current IPU Deputy Secretary General, will take over from Anders B. Johnsson who officially retires at the end of his fourth mandate on 30^th June this year.

Chungong had worked in the Cameroonian parliament for14 years before joining IPU in 1993. His career at the Organization has focused on developing and leading programmes aimed at strengthening parliaments by being more modern, representative and effective institutions that are better able to fulfill their democratic mandate.

"This is a truly exciting time to take on this challenge. Issues relating to peace and democracy are at the heart of many of the major issues facing the world today," says Chungong. "People everywhere are demanding more from their political representatives and from their parliaments in a rapidly evolving age. My commitment is to help parliaments meet this challenge head on."

The Secretary General elect ran against two other candidates – Shazia Z. Rafi (Pakistan), former Secretary General of Parliamentarians for Global Action and Geert Versnick, former Belgian MP.

He speaks fluent English and French as well as Cameroonian dialects.

Chungong will be IPU's eighth Secretary General since the Organization was created in 1889. All previous incumbents have been Europeans.

For further information, please contact: IPU: Jemini Pandya, Tel: +41 22 919 41 58/+41 79 217 3374, email: jep@ipu.org or Fernando Puchol, Tel: + 41 22 919 4137, 

http://www.ipu.org/strct-e/sg.htm#election13

In accordance with the Statutes of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the totality of the staff of the Organization works under the direction of the Secretary General of the Union who is appointed by the Governing Council. The current Secretary General of the IPU is Mr. Anders B. Johnsson (Sweden) who succeeds a number of distinguished predecessors in this post.

 

At its 194th session in March 2014, the IPU Governing Council will be called upon to elect a new Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to succeed Mr. Anders B. Johnsson, whose final term of office will end on 30 June 2014. The IPU Executive Committee has set the modalities for the vacancy announcement, presentation and examination of candidatures for this post and drew up a job description. In conformity with the established procedure, on 15 March 2014 the Executive Committee interviewed the shortlisted candidates and decided to recommend the following of them to the Governing Council (please click on the candidate's name to see his/her CV):  Mr. Martin Chungong Ms. Shazia Rafi Mr. Geert Versnick The Members will elect the new Secretary General through a secret ballot on 20 March.

 

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