List of prime ministers of Benin

This is a list of prime ministers of Benin (formerly Dahomey) since the formation of the post of Prime Minister in 1960, to its abolition in 2016.

A total of six people have served as Prime Minister (not counting one Acting Prime Minister).

List of officeholders

Political parties

Other factions

Status

Template:Abbr	Portrait	Name Template:Small	Term of office			Political affiliation	President(s)
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Republic of Dahomey (1960–1975)
1		Hubert Maga Template:Small	Template:Nowrap 1960	Template:Nowrap 1960	Template:Ayd	Independent / PDU	Himself
Post abolished (31 December 1960 – 25 January 1964)
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;"| 2		Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin Template:Small	Template:Nowrap 1964	Template:Nowrap 1965	Template:Ayd	PDD	Migan Apithy
Himself
Post abolished (29 November 1965 – 21 December 1967)
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;"| 3		Maurice Kouandété Template:Small	Template:Nowrap 1967	Template:Nowrap 1968	Template:Ayd	Military	Alley
Post abolished (17 July 1968 – 30 November 1975)
People's Republic of Benin (1975–1990)
Post abolished (30 November 1975 – 1 March 1990)
Republic of Benin (1990–present)
Post abolished (1 – 12 March 1990)
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;"| –		Nicéphore Soglo Template:Small	Template:Nowrap 1990	Template:Nowrap 1991	Template:Ayd	Independent	Kérékou
Post abolished (4 April 1991 – 9 April 1996<ref>"Apr 1996 - Acceptance of defeat by Soglo - New government", Keesing's Record of World Events, volume 42, April 1996, Benin, page 41,031.</ref>)
style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;"| 4		Adrien Houngbédji Template:Small	Template:Nowrap 1996	Template:Nowrap 1998	Template:Ayd	PRD	Kérékou
Post abolished (14 May 1998<ref name="Year1998">Benin, Year in Review: 1998, Britannica.com.</ref> – 28 May 2011<ref>Malika Groga-Bada, "Bénin : Koupaki, Premier ministre sur mesure", Jeune Afrique, 9 June 2011 Template:In lang.</ref>)
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"| 5		Pascal Koupaki Template:Small	Template:Nowrap 2011	Template:Nowrap 2013	Template:Ayd	FCBE	Boni
Post abolished (11 August 2013<ref>"Benin president scraps PM's post in new government", Reuters, 12 August 2013.</ref> – 18 June 2015<ref>"Bénin: Lionel Zinsou nommé Premier ministre", Radio France Internationale, 19 June 2015 Template:In lang.</ref>)
style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"| 6		Lionel Zinsou Template:Small	Template:Nowrap 2015	Template:Nowrap 2016	Template:Ayd	FCBE	Boni
Post abolished (6 April 2016 – present)

Timeline

<timeline> ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:21 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:80 right:100 left:20 AlignBars = late

Define $today = {{#time:d/m/Y}}

Colors =

 id:ind  value:rgb(0.8,0.8,0.8)    legend:None_(Independent)
 id:mil  value:rgb(0.76,0.69,0.57) legend:Military
 id:pdu  value:rgb(0.85,0.49,0)    legend:Dahomeyan_Unity_Party
 id:pdd  value:rgb(1,0.84,0)       legend:Dahomeyan_Democratic_Party
 id:prd  value:rgb(1,1,0)          legend:Democratic_Renewal_Party
 id:fcbe value:rgb(0.24,0.56,0.2)  legend:Cowry_Forces_for_an_Emerging_Benin

 id:gray1  value:gray(0.85)
 id:gray2  value:gray(0.95)

DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/01/1960 till:06/04/2016 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = gridcolor:gray1 unit:year increment:5 start:1960 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:gray2 unit:year increment:1 start:1960

Legend = columns:1 left:150 top:35 columnwidth:170

TextData =

 pos:(20,38) textcolor:black fontsize:M
 text:"Political party:"

BarData =

bar:Maga
bar:Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin
bar:Kouandété
bar:Soglo
bar:Houngbédji
bar:Koupaki
bar:Zinsou

PlotData =

 width:5 align:left fontsize:9 shift:(5,-4) anchor:till

bar:Maga
 from: 01/08/1960 till: 31/12/1960 color:pdu  text:"Hubert Maga"
bar:Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin
 from: 25/01/1964 till: 29/11/1965 color:pdd  text:"Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin"
bar:Kouandété
 from: 21/12/1967 till: 17/07/1968 color:mil  text:"Maurice Kouandété"
bar:Soglo
 from: 12/03/1990 till: 04/04/1991 color:ind  text:"Nicéphore Soglo (acting)"
bar:Houngbédji
 from: 09/04/1996 till: 14/05/1998 color:prd  text:"Adrien Houngbédji"
bar:Koupaki
 from: 28/05/2011 till: 11/08/2013 color:fcbe text:"Pascal Koupaki"
bar:Zinsou
 from: 18/06/2015 till: 06/04/2016 color:fcbe text:"Lionel Zinsou"

</timeline>

See also

• President of Benin
  • List of presidents of Benin
• Vice President of Benin
• List of colonial governors of Dahomey
• Politics of Benin

External links

• World Statesmen (Benin)