Soumaïla Cissé
Soumaïla Cissé (born December 20, 1949 in Niafunké in the Timbuktu region ) is a Malian politician. He failed several times in the runoff election for president.
Life
Soumaïla Cissé studied computer science at the Institut des Sciences de l'Ingénieur of the École polytechnique universitaire of the University of Montpellier II. He worked for various large companies such as IBM- France, Pechiney , le Groupe Thomson and the French airline Air Inter , before returning to Mali in 1984 to work for the Compagnie malienne pour le développement des textiles (CMDT), a company in the cotton sector. Since the founding of ADEMA-PASJ he has been an activist of this party and after the election of Alpha Oumar Konaré in 1992 he became General Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic in the first free elections since independence from France. Cissé became Minister of Finance and Trade in 1993, Minister of Finance in 1994 after a government reshuffle, then Minister of Infrastructure, Spatial Planning, Environment and Urban Planning in the government of Mandé Sidibé in 2000 . Soumaïla Cissé was elected third Vice President of ADEMA-PASJ.
In January 2002, he resigned from his cabinet post to focus on preparing for the presidential election. He was nominated by ADEMA-PASJ as a candidate to succeed Konare, who could no longer stand for election because the Mali constitution limits the term of office of the president to two terms. Amadou Toumani Touré emerged victorious from the first round of voting. In the runoff election, Cissé lost with a little less than 35% of the vote.
In view of internal party disagreements and the lack of support from former President Konaré, he left ADEMA-PASJ in June 2003 and together with some activists founded the Union pour la République et la Démocratie (URD), in German for "Union for the Republic and Democracy".
Soumaïla Cissé worked as President of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). As early as 2012, he was considered a favorite for the presidential election in April of that year. However, these were canceled due to the coup . Cissé stood in the following elections in 2013 for the URD and won the most votes after Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta . Since Keïta did not achieve an absolute majority, he stood against Cissé in the runoff on August 11th. After counting around two thirds of the votes, Cissé prematurely admitted his defeat and congratulated Keïta on the victory.
In the presidential election in August 2018, he was again beaten by Keïta in the second round of voting; Cissé received almost 33% of the vote.
On March 26, 2020, a few days before the parliamentary elections held on March 29, Cissé was forcibly abducted in Timbuktu , one of his bodyguards was killed and two others injured.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Cherif Ouazani: Soumaïla Cissé enfin libre… . Jeune Afrique . June 10, 2011. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
- ↑ Tanguy Berthemet: Mali: le combat feutré de Soumaïla Cissé , in Le Figaro , Wednesday, August 7, 2013, p. 5.
- ↑ a b c RJ Lique: Soumaïla Cissé - biography . Afrique Express. Archived from the original on August 4, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
- ^ Pierre Boilley: Présidentielles maliennes: l'enracinement démocratique? (PDF; 104 kB) Politique africaine, vol. 86. 2002. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
- ^ Thomas Scheen , Johannesburg: Military coup against President Touré. In: FAZ.net . March 22, 2012, accessed December 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Success in runoff election in Mali: Keita wins and inherits big problems ( memento from August 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, August 13, 2013 (accessed on August 13, 2013).
- ↑ Mali's president wins runoff vote with more than 67 per cent. news24.com from August 16, 2018, accessed on August 16, 2018
- ↑ Mali opposition leader taken hostage with six others: party. In: Reuters . March 26, 2020, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cissé, Soumaïla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Malian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niafunké in the Timbuktu region |