David Dacko

David Dacko is a Central African politician , born in 1930, president of the Central African Republic twice, 1959 with 1965 and of 1979 with 1981. It is deceased in Yaounde on November 21st 2003.

Principal teacher then, cousin of the president Barthelemy Boganda, David Dacko, deputy of the territorial assembly of the Black Africa in 1957, militates actively within MESAN rested by his relative in 1950.

The death of this last in February 1959 propels it at 29 years to the orders of the Central African Republic. Dacko then sets up a hybrid constitution where curiously president and chief of the government merge. Proclaimed independence in July 1960 made of him the first Head of the Central African State.

A little later the mode becomes more authoritative: the MESAN becomes sole party and the president loses his political responsibility before the Parliament. Re-elected in 1964, Dacko tries to implement an essential austerity policy to cleanse structurally overdrawn finances. These innovations are badly supported by the population but especially the administration and the army. December 31st, 1965, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, nephew of Boganda, reverses it.

The career of Dacko is not finished for as much. It expresses particularly astonishing sinuosities. To advise personal of Bokassa in 1976, its old adversary, David Dacko finds the capacity when France organizes the Opération Barracuda in September 1979 against the chief of strange a Central African Empire that Bokassa had instituted in large pumps in 1977.

The restored Republic, then re-elected in February 1981 against Angel-Felix Patassé, Dacko, anxious of the disorders which agitate the country and the rumors of coup d'etat, resigns as of September. At once, the general Kolingba replaces it, prohibits all the parties and founds for nearly ten years a Military committee of National Rectification.

David Dacko tries to present itself to the presidential elections of October 1992 but the cancellation of the poll puts an end to this project of return in the political life. It is beaten by Patassé at the time of the elections of August 1993 and fails once again in September 1999.

Since then, David Dacko lived in Bangui, almost completely withdrawn of the political life. In October 2003, very weakened, it takes part in the National dialog , being presented in front of the delegates to request their forgiveness and especially to reconcile themselves with its old adversary Abel Goumba.

Patient, it goes shortly after to Cameroun to be made look after but dies in November of an acute respiratory insufficiency.

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