 Following the 2012 election, Bouya was appointed to the government as Minister at the Presidency for Spatial Planning and the General Delegation for Major Projects on 25 September 2012.The decision to include Bouya in the government was attributed to a need to assuage the concerns of foreign partners about the lack of parliamentary oversight for Bouya and his General Delegation for Major Projects; given the amount of power wielded by Bouya, it seemed incongruous that he did not hold a government ministry through which he could be held accountable by Parliament.Although he no longer served as Transport Adviser to the President, in 2013 it was reported that Bouya effectively controlled matters relating to transportation, marginalizing Minister of State for Transport Rodolphe Adada.