Timothée Malendoma

Timothée Malendoma
Prime Minister of Central African Republic
In office 4 December 1992 – 26 February 1993
President	André Kolingba
Preceded by	Edouard Frank
Succeeded by	Enoch Derant Lakoué
Personal details
Born	1935
Died	12 December 2010

Timothée Malendoma (1935 – 12 December 2010)^[1] was a Central African politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 4 December 1992 to 26 February 1993. He was the President of the Civic Forum.

Under Malendoma's leadership, the Civic Forum participated in the "grand national debate" initiated by President André Kolingba in 1992, although such participation was opposed by the Consultative Group of Democratic Forces, an opposition coalition of which the Civic Forum was a member. In December 1992, Malendoma was appointed as Prime Minister by Kolingba; however, in February 1993, Kolingba accused Malendoma of "blocking the democratic process" and dismissed him.^[2] Malendoma was the candidate of the Civic Forum in the August 1993 presidential election, receiving 2.03% of the vote and taking sixth place.^[3]

Subsequently Malendoma was a deputy in the National Assembly and the Civic Forum was an opposition party under President Ange-Félix Patassé. As President of the Church of Christ – the King and the Faculty of Evangelical Theology of Bangui, he sought to attend a meeting of Protestant churches in New Caledonia but was barred from leaving the Central African Republic by the government on 12 October 1999.^[4]

After François Bozizé seized power in 2003, Malendoma remained in opposition. In March 2004 he objected to the presence of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the Central African Republic, arguing that Aristide was "a dictator"—"we have had our fair share and we don't need anymore"—and that the country should not be "a dumping ground". He also said that in the Central African Republic "democracy is a luxury and opposition is a foreign concept".^[5]

In the 2005 parliamentary election, he ran for a seat in the National Assembly as a candidate of the Civic Forum from Mala constituency in Kémo Prefecture,^[6] but was defeated in the second round of voting by Fred Jacob Karouna.^[7]

Malendoma died on 12 December 2010 at the age of 75.

References

1. http://centrafrique-presse.over-blog.com/article-necrologie-le-general-timothee-malendoma-est-mort-62895308.html
2. Political Parties of the World (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 115–116.
3. "Rapport de la Mission Exploratoiréen vue des Élections Présidentielles et Législatives du 22 août 1993", democratie.francophonie.org (French).
4. Central African League of Human Rights 1999 report (French).
5. "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", television transcript, 6 March 2004.
6. List of candidates qualifying for the second round, batir.rca.org (French).
7. "Les élus aux deux tours des Élections Législatives Centrafricaines, mai 2005", batir.rca.org (French).