Euloge Landry Kolélas

Who is Euloge Landry Kolélas?

Euloge Landry Kolélas is a Congolese politician. He has been a Deputy in the National Assembly of Congo-Brazzaville since 2007.

Kolélas is a son of Bernard Kolélas, who was one of Congo-Brazzaville's main political leaders during the 1990s, and joined his father's party, the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development. When Bernard Kolélas fled Congo-Brazzaville at the end of the June–October 1997 civil war, Euloge Landry accompanied him into exile.

In the June 2007 parliamentary election, Kolélas stood as the MCDDI candidate for the first constituency of Makélékélé, a district of Brazzaville. Due to local organizational difficulties, the election in that constituency was postponed and held in July 2007. Kolélas won the seat in the first round with 50.06% of the vote. He was then elected as President of the National Assembly's Health and Social Affairs Commission on 18 September 2007.

At the MCDDI's First Convention, held in Brazzaville on 24–25 May 2008, Euloge Landry Kolélas was promoted to the MCDDI National Executive Bureau and designated as National Secretary in charge of External Relations and Relations with Other Parties. On the same occasion, his brother, Guy Brice Parfait Kolélas was designated as Coordinator of the National Executive Bureau; he was thus positioned as the MCDDI's second-ranking figure and as the probable successor to Bernard Kolélas.