Mahamane Ousmane

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Mahamane Ousmane (right) next to Quett Masire (center) and António Mascarenhas Monteiro (left)

Mahamane Ousmane (born January 20, 1950 in Zinder ) is a Nigerien politician . He was President of Niger from 1993 to 1996.

Political career

He studied finance and economics in France and Canada . In 1980 he returned to Niger. After President Ali Saibou's decision to introduce a multiparty system, Ousmane founded the social democratic party Democratic and Social Assembly (CDS-Rahama) in January 1991 .

president

Ousmane ran for the CDS-Rahama party in the presidential elections of 1993 , the first free since independence from France on August 3, 1960. In the first ballot on February 27, 1993, he was in second place with 26.59% of the vote later president Tandja Mamadou . With 54.42%, he won the second ballot on March 27th and succeeded President Ali Saibou, who has been in power since 1987. He was the first member of the Hausa ethnic group in this office. His predecessors had all been Zarma . Problems during his term of office were the ailing economy and a conflict with the Tuareg , with whom he signed a peace agreement on April 24, 1995. In the parliamentary elections on January 12, 1995, his party won only 24 of the 83 seats and second place, and he appointed opposition leader Hama Amadou prime minister. As a result, both blocked each other. A military coup led by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara ended both terms on January 27, 1996. Both were in custody for a while.

Further career

On July 7, 1996 and the following day, presidential elections took place again , in which incumbent Maïnassara was elected with 52.22% of the vote in the first ballot. Ousmane came second with 19.75%, followed again by Tandja Mamadou with 15.65%. The elections were described by observers as rigged. President Maïnassara was killed in another coup on April 7, 1999, and Ousmane ran again for the presidency in the October 17, 1999 elections. This time he only reached third place in the first ballot with 22.51% and was eliminated. In the second ballot he supported Tandja Mamadou. In November, he won the runoff election and became the new president.

In the parliamentary elections on November 24, 1999, his party won 17 of the 83 seats. Ousmane assumed the office of President of the National Assembly . He also ran in the next presidential election on November 16, 2004 and came third with 17.43%. Incumbent Tandja Mamadou again won the runoff election in December. In the parliamentary elections, the CDS-Rahama won 22 of the now 122 seats.

On January 15, 2004 he became President of the Committee for the Human Rights of Members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva, which was founded in 1976 . When he ran for the presidential election on January 31, 2011 , he was fourth out of ten candidates with 8.33% of the vote. A long-standing conflict began within the CDS-Rahama between party chairman Mahamane Ousmane, an opponent of the new state president Mahamadou Issoufou , and deputy party chairman Abdou Labo , a supporter of Issoufou. In October 2012, the Nigerien Council of the Republic began its work, to which Ousmane is a member according to the constitution as a former president. Abdou Labo was elected party leader of the CDS-Rahama in September 2014 instead of Ousmane. Ousmane, who tried unsuccessfully to take legal action against his loss of power, was finally expelled from the CDS-Rahama in November 2015. He then ran for another party, the Nigerien Movement for Democratic Renewal (MNRD-Hankuri), in the presidential election on February 21, 2016 , and finished fourth out of fifteen candidates with 5.88% of the vote.

Web links

Commons : Mahamane Ousmane  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elections in Niger. In: African Elections Database. October 30, 2011, accessed February 13, 2016 .
  2. ↑ CDS Rahama. Chaude bagarre pour le contrôle du Parti. In: Liberation-Niger. June 21, 2011, accessed February 11, 2016 (French).
  3. ^ Niger: Installation du Conseil de la République . Afriquinfos, October 25, 2012; Retrieved October 29, 2012.
  4. ↑ Portrait: M. Abdou Labo, candidat du CDS RAHAMA. (No longer available online.) In: Niger Diaspora. February 5, 2016, archived from the original on February 10, 2016 ; accessed on February 11, 2016 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nigerdiaspora.net
  5. ↑ Abdoulaye Boubacar: CDS / RAHAMA: Abdou Labo investi, et Ousmane exclu. In: Tamtam Info. November 26, 2015, accessed February 11, 2016 (French).
  6. ↑ Portrait: M. Mahamane Ousmane, candidat du MNRD Hankuri. (No longer available online.) In: Niger Diaspora. February 5, 2016, archived from the original on March 15, 2016 ; accessed on March 16, 2016 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nigerdiaspora.net
  7. ↑ Results globaux provisoires. (No longer available online.) Commission Électorale Nationale Indépendante, February 2016, archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; accessed on March 16, 2016 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ceni-niger.org
personal data
SURNAME Ousmane, Mahamane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien President (1993–1996)
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH cinder