Moustapha Niasse

Moustapha Niasse (2009)

Moustapha Niasse (born November 4, 1939 in Keur Madiabel ) is a Senegalese politician. He was Prime Minister of Senegal in 1983 and from 2000 to 2001 . He has been President of the National Assembly since 2012 .

Political career

Niasse comes from a small town near Kaolack . After attending school in his hometown, he attended the Lycée Faidherbe in Saint Louis . He studied in Dakar and Paris . In 1967 he became the information and press director and in 1970 the cabinet director of long-time President Léopold Sédar Senghor .

On March 15, 1979, he joined the cabinet as Minister for Urban Development and the Environment and took over the Foreign Ministry on September 19 . To this end, he took over the post of Prime Minister on April 3, 1983 for a few weeks until April 29. During this time he belonged to the Parti Socialiste du Senegal (PPS), which has ruled since the country's independence from France in 1960 . From 1984 he worked in the private sector for the next nine years.

In June 1993 he became foreign minister again and remained in office until July 1998. He then acted as special envoy in Central Africa for the United Nations . After his break with President Abdou Diouf , who has ruled since 1981 , he founded the Alliance des forces de progrès (AFP) party and ran in the 2000 presidential elections. In the first ballot on February 27, 2000, he reached third place with 16.77% of the vote after Diouf and the ultimately victorious Abdoulaye Wade and was eliminated.

The new President Abdoulaye Wade appointed him Prime Minister on April 5, 2000. His term of office ended with his resignation on March 3, 2001. In the parliamentary elections on April 29, 2001, his AFP, of which he is Secretary General, won 16.13% of the vote and 11 of the 120 seats.

In 2002, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan , appointed him to be his special envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo , where he was supposed to help form a government of national unity. On February 17, 2004, he turned down an offer from President Abdoulaye Wade to re-enter the government.

Web links

• Election results in African Elections Database (English)
• Official website of his party AFP (French)
• Afrique Express via Niasse, February 16, 2000 (French)
• Moustapha Niasse sur RFI: Une alliance avec Idrissa Seck n'est pas à l'ordre du jour à l'AFP ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at Africatime , September 12, 2005 (French)