Djibo Leyti Kâ

Djibo Leyti (Leïty) Kâ (born February 21, 1948 in Linguère , Louga region ; † September 14, 2017 in Dakar , Senegal ) was a Senegalese politician of the Parti Socialiste du Sénégal (PS) and later the Union pour le renouveau démocratique (URD ), who was minister several times and was a presidential candidate of the URD in 2000.

Life

Kâ was initially a member of the Parti Socialiste du Sénégal (PS) and was appointed Minister for Information and Telecommunications (Ministre de l'Information et des Télécommunications) after President Abdou Diouf took office on January 1, 1981 . He held this office in the governments of Prime Ministers Habib Thiam and Moustapha Niasse and the subsequent presidential government of Abdou Diouf after the abolition of the office of prime minister on April 29, 1983 to 1988. In the presidential government he then served from 1988 to 1990 as Minister for Planning and cooperation (Ministre du Plan et de la coopération) and between 1990 and 1991 as Minister for National Education (Ministre de l'Éducation nationale) . After Habib Thiam took over the post of Prime Minister again on April 8, 1991, he replaced Seydina Oumar Sy as Foreign Minister (Ministre des Affaires étrangères) and held this office until he was replaced by Moustapha Niasse in 1993. He himself then took over the office of Minister of the Interior (Ministre de l'Intérieur) between 1993 and 1995 .

Kâ, who was at times considered a possible successor to President Diouf, was expelled from the Parti Socialiste in 1996 and founded the Union pour le renouveau démocratique (URD), which won eleven of the 150 seats in the 1998 elections to the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale du Sénégal) . In the 2000 presidential election he achieved in February 27 with 118,484 votes (7.08 percent) after Abdou Diouf from the Parti Socialiste du Sénégal (690,917 votes, 41.3 percent), Abdoulaye Wade from Parti Démocratique Sénégalais (518,740 votes, 31 , 01 percent) and Moustapha Niasse from the Alliance des forces de progrès (280,538 votes, 16.77 percent) took fourth place. He missed the runoff election on March 19, 2000, in which Wade was able to prevail with 969,332 votes (58.49 percent) clearly against incumbent Diouf, who received 687,969 votes (41.51 percent).

During President Wade's tenure, Kâ took on the post of Minister of the Sea (Ministre de l'Économie maritime) in Prime Minister Macky Sall's cabinet between 2004 and 2007 . In the subsequent governments of Prime Ministers Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré and Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye , he then served as Minister of State (Ministre d'État) and Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Retention Basins and Natural Lakes (Ministre de l'Environnement, de la Protection ) from 2007 to 2012 de la Nature, des Bassins de rétention et des Lacs artificiels) . As such, he attended the funeral services for the former long-time President of the National Assembly Daouda Sow in 2009 .

Web links

• Entry in rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Senegal: Foreign Ministers
2. ↑ Senegal: February 27, 2000