 In the multiparty 1992 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly as a PCT candidate.After Sassou Nguesso returned to power in October 1997 at the end of the 1997 civil war, Lekoundzou was appointed as Minister of State for Reconstruction and Urban Development on 2 November 1997.After a little more than a year, he was instead appointed as Minister to the Presidency in charge of National Defense on 12 January 1999.