Gabriel Bokilo

Gabriel Bokilo (20 July 1938 – 26 March 2010 ) was a Congolese politician and the President of the Union for National Redress (URN).

Administrative career Bokilo studied in France and earned a doctorate. He became Prefect of Nkéni in 1963 and then Secretary-General of the Brazzaville city government in 1964; later, he became Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Justice, Labour, and the Civil Service in 1967. He then briefly headed the Congolese branch of Société Générale he was also Alternate Governor at the World Bank from 1973 to 1974 and Alternate Governor at the International Monetary Fund from 1975 to 1993. Bokilo, who was a member of the opposition coalition, then served as Minister of Trade, Consumption, and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Mossaka 1 constituency; he won the seat in the first round with 53.45% of the vote.

The URN initially signed an agreement to merge into the New Democratic Forces (FDN) on 27 March 2007. At the new party's constitutive congress, which began on 19 April 2007, Bokilo was not chosen as President of the FDN; he then announced that he was withdrawing the URN from the FDN He was then defeated by Mokoko in the second round.

Beginning in 2007, Bokilo's health declined and he frequently visited Paris for medical treatment. He was hospitalized in Paris on 18 March 2010 and died of colon cancer on 26 March.