On 8 May 2005, Bozizé gained yet a further victory when his coalition, Convergence Kwa Na Kwa, won 42 parliamentary seats in the legislative run-off vote.

Bozizé and his party both won in the elections.

A run-off election between Bozizé, who won the most votes in the first round according to official results, and Martin Ziguélé, a former prime minister under Patassé, was held, and Bozizé won this second round with 64. 6 % of the vote.

Since no candidate won a majority, a second-round presidential vote was required between Bozizé and Ziguélé.

On May 24, Jean Willybiro Sako announced that Bozizé had won the presidential election with 64. 6 % of the vote.

In the 2005 parliamentary election, the party won three seats in the National Assembly as part of the National Convergence Kwa Na Kwa coalition, which supports President François Bozizé.

Following Dacko's ouster by André Kolingba in September 1981, Bozizé was appointed Minister of Communications, but fled to the north of the country with 100 soldiers after his involvement in a failed coup attempt led by Ange-Félix Patassé on 3 March 1982, in which he accused Kolingba of treason and proclaimed the change of power on Radio Bangui.

Fighting erupted when the government tried to arrest Bozizé on 3 November ; after five days of this, government forces aided by Libyan troops captured the barracks where Bozizé was based, and Bozizé fled north to Chad.

Bozizé also suspended the country's 1995 constitution after seizing power, and a new constitution, reportedly similar to the old one, was approved by voters in a referendum on 5 December 2004.

After seizing power, Bozizé initially said he would not run in a planned future presidential election, but after the successful constitutional referendum, he announced his intention to stand as a candidate on 11 December:

After General François Bozizé overthrew Patassé and proclaimed himself president, Dacko participated in the Dialogue National ( National Dialogue ) that began on September 9, 2003, but shortly thereafter, on September 27, 2003, Dacko had an attack of asthma.

After Bozizé seized power on March 15, 2003, ousting Patassé, he appointed Goumba as Prime Minister on March 23.

His government was formed on March 31, 2003 ; in its composition it was viewed as a compromise between Bozizé and Goumba, with a number of military allies and relatives of Bozizé receiving key posts while other posts went to associates and allies of various political leaders and to independent figures regarded as competent.

He had planned to submit a revised programme on December 12, 2003, but on December 11, Bozizé dismissed him as Prime Minister.

Despite having no political experience, Gaombalet was appointed as Prime Minister by President François Bozizé on December 12, 2003, replacing Abel Goumba, who in turn became Bozizé's vice-president.

Kolingba finally returned to Bangui on 5 October 2003 during the last days of a National Conference ( Dialogue National ) which Bozizé sponsored to promote reconciliation and reconstruction of the country.

He left office when rebel leader François Bozizé took power upon capturing the capital, Bangui, on 15 March 2003.

He was subsequently reinstated as a candidate by Bozizé, along with two other candidates, on January 4.

Presidential and parliamentary elections were held in the Central African Republic on March 13, 2005 ( first round ) and May 8, 2005 ( second round ), marking the end of the transitional process that began with the seizure of power by François Bozizé in a March 2003 coup.

After taking power with the seizure of the capital, Bangui, on March 15, 2003, Bozizé said that his rule was a transitional period, and that he would step down at the end of the transition.

Eventually, following a referendum on a new constitution on December 5, 2004, Bozizé announced his candidacy in the presidential election as an independent candidate on December 11, 2004, while speaking to supporters.

He faced Bozizé in a second round of voting, and tried to distance himself from Patassé in campaigning, but was defeated and took 35. 4 % of the vote.

On March 31, official results were announced: Bozizé came in first with just under 43 % of the votes, while Ziguélé came in second with 23. 5 %.

The run-off between Bozizé and Ziguélé, initially scheduled to take place on May 1, was postponed to May 8.

Abel Goumba also ran as the candidate of the Patriotic Front for Progress ( Front patriotique pour le progrès ); a long-time politician, he served as prime minister in the late 1950s and again from March to December 2003, following Bozizé's seizure of power, subsequently becoming vice-president under Bozizé until being dismissed shortly after the first round of the election.

Convergence Kwa Na Kwa, the coalition supporting Bozizé, did not win any seats in the first round.

Theoretically, as all the opposition candidates ( except Auguste Boukanga ) were part of the UFVN, there was, based on the mathematical results of the first round, a majority against Bozizé.

On May 24, 2004, Bozizé approved 30 members of CEMI who had been chosen by three groups: political parties, professional groups, and the national administration.

Bozizé gave an interview to Radio France Internationale on May 17 in which he refused to say whether or not he would run, but he confirmed that Konaré had spoken to him about it, while criticizing Konaré for what he called interference in the country's affairs, and wondering whether he had consulted the opinions of the Central African people before getting involved.

Early results from CEMI on May 12 showed Bozizé with a strong lead.

Subsequently, partial results from CEMI on May 16 showed Bozizé with slightly more than 60 % of the total vote, according to results from 1, 698 of the country's 4, 161 polling stations.

Despite these shortcomings, and his promise to step down at the end of the transition, Bozizé contested the 13 March 2005 presidential elections in which all of the leading opposition candidates were allowed to run except for Patassé.

Gabon hosted a meeting in 2005, to solve the crisis following Bozizé barring of some candidates in the election.

During the election in 2005, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso openly supported Bozizé.

On 30 December 2004, Bozizé was one of five candidates approved to run in the presidential election scheduled for early 2005.

On 4 January 2005, Bozizé announced that three initially excluded candidates would also be allowed to run, although former president Patassé was not included in either group.

Goumba, who was President of the Patriotic Front for Progress ( FPP ) political party, served under President François Bozizé as Prime Minister from March 2003 to December 2003 and then as Vice-President from December 2003 to March 2005.

Although the chairman of the court, Marcel Malonga, reaffirmed the decision on state radio on January 3, 2005, Bozizé made a conciliatory gesture on January 4 by announcing that three of the disqualified candidates would be permitted to run: Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Martin Ziguélé, and Charles Massi.

His appointment as Prime Minister by President François Bozizé on 13 June 2005, following a presidential and parliamentary election, was considered surprising ; Doté, who had previously been working outside the country in Tunis for the ADB, was at the time largely unknown in CAR.

The National Elections Commission declared Bozizé the winner with 64. 6 percent of the vote to 35. 4 percent for Ziguélé.

Ziguélé tried to have Bozizé's victory invalidated, claiming that soldiers had forced or intimidated people into voting for Bozizé, but this was rejected by the constitutional court.