Council of National Welfare

The Council of National Welfare ( French : Conseil du Salut National ) was a military junta that ruled Niger from January 27, 1996 to December 12, 1996 .

The junta was founded on the day of the coup led by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , which deposed President Mahamane Ousmane and Prime Minister Hama Amadou . The coup was preceded by months of mutual blocking of government work.

The members of the Council of National Welfare were twelve officers:

• Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara (Chairman)
• Youssoufa Maïga (Deputy Chairman)
• Nouhou Bako
• Moussa Moumouni Djermakoye
• Hamadou Moussa Gros
• Abdoul Ramane Seydou (speaker)
• Issaka Labo Bouché
• Illias Almahady
• Moumouni Boureima
• Yayé Garba
• Mohamadou Barazé
• Daouda Malam Wanké

The military junta installed Boukary Adji as prime minister and had a new constitution drafted, which was adopted in a referendum on May 12, 1996 . In the heavily rigged presidential elections on May 7 and 8, 1996 , Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, chairman of the Council of National Welfare, emerged as the winner. The parliamentary elections on November 23, 1996 were then boycotted by most of the opposition parties. The Council of National Welfare was dissolved on December 12, 1996, and Baré Maïnassara remained head of state.

literature

• Boubacar Issa Abdourhamane: Institutional crisis et democratisation au Niger . Center d'Étude d'Afrique Noire avec le concours de l'Institut d'Études Politiques de Bordeaux, Talence 1996, ISBN 2-908065-34-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. xxxviii – xxxix .
2. ↑ Chaïbou Maman: Répertoire biographique des personnalités de la classe politique et des leaders d'opinion du Niger de 1945 à nos jours . Volume II. Démocratie 2000, Niamey 2003, p. 359 .