Jerome Sacca Kina Guezere (1952 – 11 January 2005) was a Benin

Benin

Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Its small southern coastline on the Bight of Benin is where a majority of the population is located...

ese politician

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. He was the Fourth Vice-President of the African Union

African Union

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's Pan-African Parliament

Pan-African Parliament

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.

He was elected to the National Assembly of Benin

National Assembly of Benin

The unicameral National Assembly of Benin is the country's legislative body.The current National Assembly has 83 members who are directly elected through a system of party-list proportional representation and serve five-year terms.-See also:...

 for the first time in the 1991 parliamentary election

Beninese parliamentary election, 1991

Elections for the National Assembly were held in Benin on 17 February 1991, the first multi-party elections in the country since 1964. Turnout was 51.7% of the 2,069,343 registered voters.-Results:...

 and was again elected in 1995

Beninese parliamentary election, 1995

Elections for the National Assembly were held in Benin on 28 March 1995. Voting for 13 seats was re-run on 28 May after the Supreme Court had invalidated the results due to irregularities. Voter turnout was 75.8%.-Results:...

. He was a founding member of the Action Front for Renewal and Development

Action Front for Renewal and Development

The Action Front for Renewal and Development is an political party in Benin.FARD-Alafia was founded in 1994 and supported the candidacy of Mathieu Kérékou in the 1996 presidential election. Kérékou stood as party's candidate in the presidential election of March 4 and 18 March 2001, winning 45.4%...

 (FARD-Alafia) in 1994. From 1996 to 1998, he served as Minister of Rural Development under President Mathieu Kérékou

Mathieu Kérékou

Mathieu Kérékou, was President of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and again from 1996 to 2006. After seizing power in a military coup, he ruled the country for 17 years, for most of that time under an officially Marxist-Leninist ideology, before he was stripped of his powers by the National Conference of...

. In the March 1999 parliamentary election

Beninese parliamentary election, 1999

Elections for the National Assembly were held in Benin on 30 March 1999. The Renaissance Party of Benin retained its status as the largest party in the Assembly, increasing its number of seats from 21 to 27, whilst the Democratic Renewal Party won only 11 seats, a reduction of seven.Voter turnout...

 he was again elected to the National Assembly as a FARD-Alafia candidate, and he became President of the Solidarity and Progress Parliamentary Group following the election. In the March 2003 parliamentary election

Beninese parliamentary election, 2003

A parliamentary election was held in Benin in 30 March 2003. The 83 seats in the National Assembly of Benin were split between twelve parties and two main alliances....

, he was elected as a Union for Future Benin

Union for Future Benin

The Union for Future Benin is an electoral alliance in Benin.At the last legislative elections, 30 March 2003, the party was member of the Presidential Movement, the alliance of supporters of Mathieu Kérékou, who had won the 2001 presidential elections, and won 31 out of 83 seats...

 (UBF) candidate (with FARD-Alafia being one of the component parties of the UBF). He also served as First Vice-President of the National Assembly.

He was elected Fourth Vice-President of the Pan-African Parliament when it was inaugurated in March 2004. He was representing the Pan-African Parliament at Ghana

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ian President John Kufuor

John Kufuor

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's inauguration for his second term in Accra

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when he fell ill, and he subsequently died in Benin on 11 January 2005.