sentences:  While there, she met Abel Goumba, who was also a lecturer on public health issues, later marrying him.Her husband was a long-time Central African political reformer, who founded what eventually became the Patriotic Front for Progress party.She too supported the work of the FPP, and stood in the 2005 Central African general election and was elected as a deputy for Bangui's fifth district with 37.32 percent in the 8 May runoff.