Congo Brazzaville’s main opposition leader, Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, has passed away while receiving treatment for Coronavirus.
Mr Kolelas passed away on Monday, March 22, 2021.
He was aged 61 and had contested in the Sunday, March 21, 2021 presidential election.
The departed opposition leader was challenging incumbent Denis Sassou Ngessou who has been in power for about 36 years.
Reports gathered by African Entertainment indicated that he died while being evacuated to France for Covid19 treatment.
Reports say he had been on oxygen at a private hospital in Congo Brazzaville after he was diagnosed with the virus on Saturday, March 20, which was the eve of the election.
Previously, Congo’s ex-president Yhombi-Opango died of coronavirus.
Mr Kolelas, it would be recalled, skipped his final campaign event on Friday after announcing to some reporters a day earlier that he feared he had malaria.
Following the death of his father, Bernard Kolélas, he succeeded him as Interim President of the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development, one of Congo-Brazzaville’s main political parties, in 2010.
