Kamarou Fassassi

Fassassi was born in Porto-Novo.^[1] He was director of the Cabinet of the president of the National Assembly of Benin, Adrien Houngbédji, from 1992 to 1995,^[1][2] and he was elected to the National Assembly in the March 1995 parliamentary election.^[1] When Mathieu Kérékou returned to the Presidency in 1996, Fassassi became Minister of Public Works and Transport, serving in that position until 1998.^[1][2]

He was again elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of the Democratic Renewal Party in the March 1999 parliamentary election,^[3] but in 2000 he formed a new party, the Party of the Awakening of the Democrats of the New Generation (Parti du Réveil de Démocrates de la Nouvelle Génération, PRD-Nouvelle Génération), which supported the re-election of President Kérékou in the March 2001 presidential election.^[1][2] In May 2001 he was appointed Minister of Mines, Energy and Hydraulics,^[1][2][4] serving until April 2006,^[4] when Yayi Boni became president.

Fassassi was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of the Union for Future Benin in the March 2003 parliamentary election.^[5] In Copargo in January 2006, he announced that he would be the PRD-Nouvelle Génération's candidate in the March 2006 presidential election, saying that he wanted to defend Kérékou's legacy.^[2] In the election, which Boni won, Fassassi took ninth place with 0.98% of the vote.

He died on December 4, 2016, at CNHU (national university hospital center).^[6]