- Soumaïla Cissé
Soumaïla Cissé (born
December 20 ,1949 [http://www.essor.gov.ml/cgi-bin/view_article.pl?id=1412 "Présidentielles: 24 SUR LA LIGNE DE DÉPART"] , "L'Essor", April 8, 2002 fr icon.] ) is aMali anpolitician .Born in
Timbuctu , Soumaïla Cissé studied at "l'Institut des Sciences de l'Ingénieur de Montpellier" inFrance to become asoftware engineer . He worked in several large French companies (IBM -France, le Groupe Pechiney, le Groupe Thomson and the aerospace company Air Inter) before returning to Mali in 1984 to work at the "Compagnie malienne pour le développement des textiles" (CMDT).With his creation of the "Alliance pour la démocratie au Mali-Parti africain pour la solidarité et la justice" ("Alliance for democracy in Mali/African Party for solidarity and justice,"
ADEMA-PASJ ), he became the Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic following the 1992 election ofAlpha Oumar Konaré . In 1993, he was named Minister of Finances, then in 2000, Minister of Equipment, Management of Territory, Environment, and Urban Planning in the government ofMandé Sidibé .Cissé was elected as the Third Vice-President of ADEMA-PASJ at the party's first extraordinary congress, held between
November 25 andNovember 28 ,2000 . [ [http://www.essor.gov.ml/cgi-bin/view_article.pl?id=1873 "L'agenda du premier quinquennat 1992–1997"] , "L'Essor",June 6 ,2002 fr icon.] [ [http://www.adema-pasj.org/index.php?milieu=5&detail=comite_2000_2003 "Comité exécutif 2000–2003; La liste du comité exécutif issu du premier congrès extraordinaire"] , ADEMA-PASJ website fr icon.] In January 2002, he resigned from the government to devote himself to preparation for the 2002 presidential election, and ADEMA-PASJ selected him as its candidate to succeed Alpha Oumar Konaré. Cissé took second place in the first round of the election with 21.31% of the vote, [ [http://www.essor.gov.ml/cgi-bin/view_article.pl?id=1652 "1er tour de l'élection présidentielle au Mali : Verdict de la Cour Constitutionnelle"] , "L'Essor", May 9, 2002 fr icon.] but he lost toAmadou Toumani Touré in the second round, taking 35.65% of the vote.Considering himself overthrown by a faction of ADEMA-PASJ, Cissé left the party with a group of loyalists to found the
Union for the Republic and Democracy ("Union pour la république et la démocratie", URD) in June 2003.Soumaïla Cissé is currently President of the Commission of the
West African Monetary Union (UEMOA).References
*This article is based on a translation of the corresponding article from the French Wikipedia, retrieved on
June 27 2005 .
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