Abdoulaye Baldé

Abdoulaye Baldé (born January 16, 1964 in Darsalam , a village in the rural community of Nyassia in the Ziguinchor department , Casamance ) is a Senegalese politician who was a minister several times.

Life

Studies, Police Commissioner and Government Official

Abdoulaye Baldé attended from 1978 to 1984, the Lycée Djignabo in Ziguinchor and started on a degree in Public Law with a focus on International Relations, he he in 1987 with a Bachelor's degree (License en Droit public) graduated. He completed a subsequent postgraduate course in this subject in 1988 with a Magister (Maîtrise de Droit public) with the thesis La Cour suprême du Sénégal: Organization et fonctionnement . He then completed a further postgraduate course in public law at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar in Dakar in 1991 with a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies de Droit Public Général (DEAG) with the thesis Les comptes spéciaux du Trésor au Sénégal and subsequently acquired after attending the National Police School (Ecole nationale de police du Sénégal) in 1991 a Diplôme de Commissaire de police .

Baldé was then police commissioner and chief of the economic and financial brigade of the Senegalese criminal police between July 1991 and April 1992. During this time he completed a further postgraduate course in public law in 1992 with a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies Spécial d'Enseignement de Droit public (DEAS). Then he took between 1992 and 2000 as Head of the Bureau for analysis and advice to the Presidency and completed during this time its in May 1996 Promotion to Doctor of Law in specialized Public Law with a focus on Public Finance at the University of Perpignan with the dissertation Le contrôle des finances publiques au Sénégal: Contribution à une théorie des contrôles financiers dans un état en voie de développement from. In 2000, as a member of the promotion Erasme class, he also completed a degree at the École nationale d'administration (ENA), which he completed with a Brevet d'Administration publique .

General Secretary of the Presidential Office and Member of Parliament

After Abdoulaye Wade was elected President , Abdoulaye Baldé, who was also a member of his Democratic Party PDS ( Parti Démocratique Sénégalais ) , was appointed General Secretary of the Presidential Office (Secrétaire général de la présidence de la République du Sénégal) in 2001 and held this office 2009. In addition, from 2001 to 2005 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Society for the Development of the Petite-Côte SAPCO (President of the Conseil d'administration de la société d'aménagement de Petite-Côte) . At the same time he was active within the PDS as general secretary of the party in Ziguinchor and as a member of the executive board of the PDS. He has received several awards, including the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor in 2002 . At the same time, he was Executive Director of the National Agency of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation OCI (L'Organisation de Coopération Islamique) between 2004 and 2009 .

In 2007 Baldé was elected for the first time as a member of the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale du Sénégal) for the PDS and was re-elected in 2012.

Mayor of Ziguinchor and Minister

In the local elections on March 22, 2009, Baldé also ran for the office of mayor of Ziguinchor and was able to prevail against Robert Sagna , who had held the office for almost 25 years since December 1984. Between 2009 and 2014 he was also President of the Association of Mayors (Association des Maires du Sénégal) and from 2009 to 2014 he was also a member of the Executive Committee of the African Union of Cities and Local Governments and a member of the Executive Office of the Administrations and Authorities of the Local Authorities.

When there was an extensive reshuffle of Prime Minister Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye's cabinet in October 2009 , Madické Niang became Foreign Minister on October 1, 2009, while Abdoulaye Baldé became Minister of State (Ministre d'Etat) and Minister of Defense (Ministre des Forces Armées) and on October 14, 2009 Bécaye Diop Minister of the Interior. He held the post of Defense Minister until his further government reshuffle in September 2010 and then took over the offices of Minister of State and Minister for Mining, Industry, Agricultural Industry, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (Ministre des Mines, de l'Industrie, de l 'Agro-industrie et des Petite ou moyenne entreprise) . At the same time he was President of the Administrative Board of the Agency for the Development of Municipalities (Agence de développement municipal) between 2010 and 2014 .

After Baldé left the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais (PDS), he founded the Union der Mitte UCS (Union Centriste du Senegal) in July 2012 and has been its president ever since. In 2014 he was re-elected as mayor of Ziguinchor. Since December 2014 he has been a remote member of the office of the International Association of Francophone Mayors AIMF (Association Internationale des Maires Francophones) and President of its Commission for Decentralization and Local Democracy.

Web link

• Entry on the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale du Sénégal)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Senegal: 1./14. October 2009 in Rulers