Pierre Mabiala

[10] Having lost his seat in the National Assembly, Mabiala instead stood as a candidate of the Rally of the Presidential Majority (RMP), the coalition of parties supporting Sassou Nguesso, in the indirect August 2008 Senate election.

[16] Sassou Nguesso won the election and then appointed Mabiala to the government as Minister of Land Affairs and the Public Domain on 15 September 2009.

[20] In the government appointed after the election, on 25 September 2012, Mabiala was retained in his post as Minister of Land Affairs and the Public Domain.

[22][23] Soon afterward, on 6 April 2014, an organization intended to mobilize support for the proposal, the Citizen Front for Changing the Constitution, was established with Koumba as its President and Mabiala as its Vice-President.

He also condemned opposition leaders who wanted the United States to act against Sassou Nguesso and said that they were effectively seeking a return to colonialism.

[25] After Sassou Nguesso's victory in the March 2016 presidential election, he moved Mabiala to the post of Minister of Justice, Human Rights, and Promotion of Indigenous Peoples on 30 April 2016.

[29] Following the election, he was moved back to his old post as Minister of Land Affairs, with additional responsibility for relations with Parliament, on 22 August 2017.