election led Ibovi to suspend the Director General for Electoral Affairs, Armand Baboutila, on 28 June 2007 for alleged negligence in the handling of the election; he appointed Gaston Ololo in Baboutila's place for the second round of the election. Hervé Ambroise Malonga, acting as spokesman for parties calling for a boycott of the election, said that higher level officials should take responsibility and called for the resignation of Ibovi and the president of the electoral commission. Ibovi was again elected to the National Assembly as a PCT candidate from Oyo constituency in the 2007 parliamentary election, receiving 99% of the vote. When the National Assembly opened for its new parliamentary term on 4 September 2007, Ibovi was elected as its First Vice-President; he received 122 votes from the 129 deputies who voted. Having been elected to a post in the Bureau of the National Assembly, it was inevitable that Ibovi would be dismissed from his powerful post in the government; some believed that President Sassou Nguesso was demoting Ibovi as punishment for his widely criticized management of the election. Ibovi was eventually replaced as Minister of Territorial Administration by Raymond Mboulou in the government named on 30 December 2007. At the PCT's Sixth Extraordinary Congress, held in July 2011, Ibovi was re-elected to the PCT's 51-member Political Bureau. In the July–August 2012 parliamentary election, Denis-Christel Sassou Nguesso—the President's son—stood as the PCT's candidate in Oyo, rather than Ibovi. Ibovi was thus left without a seat in the National Assembly, but President Sassou Nguesso appointed him to the government as Minister of Health and Population on 25 September 2012. On 31 May 2013, Ibovi announced a new anti-tobacco law that was intended to eliminate smoking in public places, ban the advertising of tobacco products, and prevent children, as well as pregnant women and those suffering from mental illness, from buying or using tobacco products. The announcement of the 2012 law was timed to coincide with World No Tobacco Day. Ibovi visited Cuba on 20–25 June 2013, saying that there was much to learn from Cuba's health system. While there, he signed an agreement that would involve 14 Cuban doctors being sent to Congo-Brazzaville. He also met with Cuban President Raul Castro, giving him a letter from President Sassou Nguesso, and visited medical facilities. He visited Cuba again on 25–31 October 2013, and on that occasion he signed agreements with the