Lamine Sidimé

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Lamine Sidimé (* 1944 ) was Prime Minister of Guinea from 1999 to 2004 .

jurist

Sidimé studied law in Paris . In 1980 he was appointed to the University of Dakar . After the overthrow of the long-standing authoritarian president Ahmed Sékou Touré , he returned to his homeland in 1984 and worked at the university in the capital Conakry . Since 1985 he has been a professor of private law.

In 1990 he was a member of the commission drafting a new constitution that came into force in 1991. The authoritarian President Lansana Conté , who has ruled since 1984, appointed him President of the country's Supreme Court (Cour Suprême) in 1992 .

Political career

Sidimé belongs to Conté's Parti de l'Unité et du Progrès (PUP), which won 71 of the 114 seats in the parliamentary elections in June 1995. On March 8, 1999, he was appointed Prime Minister. One focus of his government work was the liberalization of the economy and the privatization of state-owned companies. His party won the parliamentary elections on June 30, 2002 with 85 of the 144 seats, with the exclusion of the opposition's top candidate, Alpha Condé , leading to an election boycott of part of the opposition. Sidimé resigned on February 23, 2004 to allow the president to reshuffle his cabinet.

On August 1, 2005, he was appointed President of the Supreme Court a second time.

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