Kalla Ankourao

Kalla Ankourao is a Nigerien politician of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS).

Ankourao was elected to the National Assembly of Niger in the February 1993 parliamentary election [ [http://droit.francophonie.org/df-web/publication.do?publicationId=548 "Afrique de l'Ouest - Niger - Cour suprême - 1993 - Arrêt no 93-10/cc du 18 mars 1993"] , droit.francophonie.org fr icon.] as a PNDS candidate in Maradi Department. [ [http://droit.francophonie.org/df-web/publication.do?publicationId=1024 "Afrique de l'Ouest - Niger - Cour suprême - 1993 - Arrêt no 93-3/cc du 1er février 1993"] , droit.francophonie.org fr icon.] Following the January 1995 parliamentary election, he was appointed Minister of Public Health in the government named on February 25 1995; [ [http://www.presidence.ne/PagesHtm/GouvMahamaneOusmane.htm "GOUVERNEMENTS DU PRESIDENT MAHAMANE OUSMANE"] , Nigerien presidency website fr icon.] this government was overthrown in a military coup in January 1996. He was later elected to the National Assembly in the December 2004 parliamentary election as a PNDS candidate from Maradi Department [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20050213002952/www.assemblee.ne/circons/circ_ord.htm List of deputies by constituency] , National Assembly website (2005 archive) fr icon.] and became President of the PNDS Parliamentary Group during the parliamentary term that followed. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20050213003401/www.assemblee.ne/groupes/groupes.htm Page on parliamentary groups] , National Assembly website (2005 archive) fr icon.]

As of the Fourth Ordinary Congress of the PNDS in September 2004, Ankourao is a member of the party's National Executive Committee as Second Deputy Secretary-General. [ [http://pnds-tarraya.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=34 "Comité Exécutif National issu du 4ème Congrès Ordinaire"] , PNDS website fr icon.]

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