On October 24, 2023, the Burkinabè national employers’ council will hold an elective general assembly. The outgoing president, Apollinaire Compaoré, is at the end of a first 4-year term and intends to seek a second term from his peers. The texts authorize it. In our online edition of October 2, we wondered who would succeed the outgoing president?
Since October 16, we now know who will run with him for the position of Burkinabe boss of bosses, in the person of Idrissa Nassa. On this date, according to the CNPB’s electoral procedures, the list of selected candidates should be published. The list of voters was published on October 20, if we stick to the electoral calendar.
The candidacy of the PCA of Coris Holding Nassa, the man who gave up being a candidate in 2018 after negotiations, is supported by around sixty professional member organizations. He has a program on which he intends to seduce the bosses. The outgoing president has his record to weigh in the balance and his plans to consolidate his achievements.
If there is not a withdrawal agreement as in 2018, the ballot boxes will decide on October 24. . In 2018, the business world was coming out of the elections of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIBF), where the boss of Telecel and Wend Kuni Bank, Apollinaire Compaoré was defeated in the presidential election. This probably played a role in the consensus around his candidacy to be president of the CNPB.
Here are the conditions to claim the presidency of the Burkinabè employers – Be of Burkinabè nationality; – Enjoy their civil rights and have not been the subject of any criminal conviction, nor civil or administrative sanction, prohibiting them either from carrying out a commercial activity or from managing, administering or directing a legal entity ; – Be at least 21 years old and at most 75 years old on the date of the election; be or have been a leading member of a professional organization or member company; – Be proposed by a company or professional organization with two (02) years of seniority as a member of the CNPB and up to date with its contributions; -Not be a member of a governing body of a political party
