Who Is Blaise Campaore’s Brother?

François Compaoré is Blaise Compaoré’s younger brother and served as Compaoré’s economic adviser from 1989 to 2014.

François Compaoré, who was born on January 11, 1954, is a politician from Burkina Faso. President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, appointed him as his economic adviser from 1989 to 2014.

On 4 March 2012, the Fifth Ordinary Congress of the Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP) elected François Compaoré to the position of Secretary of the Associative Movement in the CDP’s National Executive Secretariat.

This was the first time that François Compaoré has held this position. He was the eleventh most senior official in the National Executive Secretariat.

As early as 2012, François Compaoré was being referred to as “the new CDP strongman,” and discussion centered on the prospect that he may follow his brother as president of the country in 2015.

Blaise Compaoré would be unable to run for re-election unless the constitution was altered prior to that moment, as he would have reached the constitutional maximum of two consecutive terms.

The CDP’s Compaoré stood as the second candidate on the CDP’s candidate list for Kadiogo Province, which includes the capital of Ouagadougou, in the December 2012 legislative election.

Four of the five available seats in Kadiogo were won by the CDP, ensuring Compaoré’s election to the National Assembly.

But he elected not to sit as a Deputy in the National Assembly, instead of allowing his substitute to fill the vacancy.

When his brother lost control of the country in 2014, he escaped to Benin.