Bognessan Arsène Yé (10 October 1957 – 30 January 2024) was a Burkinabé politician who rose to power through a military coup and was President of the Assembly of People's Deputies of Burkina Faso from 1992 to 1997, President of the Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP) from 1996 to 1999, and a Minister of State from 1997 to 2000.
[1] He was appointed Minister of State for Relations with Parliament and Political Reform in April 2011.
After the October 1987 coup, in which Blaise Compaoré took power, Yé became the National Secretary-General of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution while also a member of the CNR with the rank of Minister.
Subsequently, he was included on the Executive Committee of the Popular Front as National Secretary for Organization from March 1990 to March 1991,[1] and on 2 May 1990, he was appointed President of the Constitutional Commission,[3] which was responsible for drafting a new constitution.
[2] In 2008, he was President of the National Assembly's ad hoc Commission on the Financing of Political Parties, Electoral Campaigns, and the Status of the Opposition.