Mahamadou Issoufou

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Mahamadou Issoufou (2015)

Mahamadou Issoufou (* 1952 in Dandadji , Illela ) is a Nigerien politician and since the presidential elections in 2011 elected president of the country. He belongs to the Hausa ethnic group , who form the majority in the country.

Life

Mahamadou Issoufou's father was the tenth traditional local chief of Dandadji and served in the French armed forces during the colonial period . He died in 1963 when Mahamadou Issoufou was a child.

Issoufou attended primary school in Illéla near Dandadji. He then went to the Collège d'enseignement général in Madaoua , followed by training at the Lycée national in Niamey , which he completed in 1971 with a baccalaureate in mathematics and physics. Issoufou then studied at the Center d'enseignement supérieur de Niamey and at the University of Niamey , where he received his degree in mathematics in 1975 . He was arrested in 1973 for his membership in a student organization and imprisoned for a short time. He completed his further training in France . He received his Master in 1976 at the University of Paris VI and 1979 his engineering in mining beings at the École nationale supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne .

After four years working for the Nigerien uranium mining companies SOMAÏR and COMINAK , Mahamadou Issoufou became director of mining in the Nigerien Ministry of Industry and Mining in 1980. In 1985 he returned to SOMAÏR, first as Secretary General, then as Director of Uranium Mining and finally until 1992 as Technical Director.

When the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism came into being in 1990 , Mahamadou Issoufou was elected General Secretary of the party's Executive Committee and was confirmed in this office in 1991.

Issoufou ran in the presidential elections of 1993 for the first time for the office of president, but was already defeated in the first round of Tandja Mamadou and the later election winner Mahamane Ousmane . When he was elected President on March 27, 1993, he was himself appointed Prime Minister by Ousmane on April 17, 1993. He held this office until his replacement by Souley Abdoulaye on September 28, 1994. During the presidency of Ousmanes, he was President of the National Assembly from 1995 to 1996 .

In the presidential elections in July 1996 he ran again for the office of president and was defeated this time by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , who received 52 percent of the vote and was accused of fraud .

In the presidential election in October 1999 he reached the runoff election, in which, however, he was defeated by Tandja Mamadou with 40 percent of the vote in November 1999 as in the next presidential election in November and December 2004 . After he had already clearly won the first round of the presidential elections in 2011 , he prevailed in the runoff election on March 14, 2011 with almost 58 percent of the votes against his opponent, former Prime Minister Seini Oumarou , and took office on March 6. April 2011. In the presidential elections on March 20, 2016 , he was re-elected with 92 percent of the vote, but the opposition had boycotted the election.

Honors

literature

  • Abdouramane Harouna: Issoufou Mahamadou "Zaki". Les boutures de manioc . With a foreword by Kané Souleymane. Karthala, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-8111-1513-5 .

Web links

Commons : Mahamadou Issoufou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Premier ministre, M Brigi Rafini: un homme d'une grande expérience politique à la tête du gouvernement ( Memento of March 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Le Sahel (Niamey), July 11, 2011.
  2. ^ Adam Thiam: Issoufou en vacances dans son village: S'il vous plaît, le chemin de Dan Daji? In: Tamtam Info. August 31, 2015, accessed March 29, 2018 (French).
  3. ↑ rfi.fr Niger: le président Mahamadou Issoufou réélu avec 92.4% of voix
personal data
SURNAME Issoufou, Mahamadou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Dandadji