POLITICIANS from Senegal
The Most Famous
This page contains a list of the greatest Senegalese Politicians. The pantheon dataset contains 19, Politicians, 15 of which were born in Senegal. This makes Senegal the birth place of the th most number of Politicians behind Nauru, and Ghana.
Top 10
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Senegalese Politicians of all time. This list of famous Senegalese Politicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Senegalese Politicians.
1. Ségolène Royal (b. )
With an HPI of , Ségolène Royal is the most famous Senegalese Politician. Her biography has been translated into 69 different languages on wikipedia.
Ségolène Royal (French: [seɡɔlɛn ʁwajal] ; born Marie-Ségolène Royal; 22 September ) is a French politician who took part in the French presidential election, losing to Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round. She was the first woman in France's history to reach the second round in a presidential election. Royal was president of the Poitou-Charentes
Mame Madior Boye facts for kids
Mame Madior Boye (Wolof: Maam Maajoor Bóoy; born 7 December ) is a Senegalese politician who served as Prime Minister of Senegal from to She was the first woman to hold that position.
Background and career
Boye was born to a family of lawyers in Saint-Louis, Senegal and like her three brothers, she was educated as a lawyer in Dakar and Paris. Her father was a clerk and a bailiff. She graduated from Faidherbe High School in her hometown. In , she enrolled at the Faculty of Legal and Economic Sciences at the University of Dakar and then continued her training at the National Center for Judicial Studies (CNEJ) in Paris until
She spent most of her career in the Senegalese administration of justice. She was successively Deputy Public Prosecutor, judge and first vice President of the Regional First Class Court of Dakar and chamber President of the Court of Appeal. She was a founder and the first woman president of the Association of Senegalese Lawyers from to , then became the Director of Engagements for the West African Banking Company (Compagnie bancaire de l'Afrique Occidentale, CBAO) from September to April Boye was also vice president of
Senegal (present)
Crisis Phase (August 20, May 13, ): On August 20, , Senegal formally achieved its independence when the National Assembly of Senegal proclaimed the country&#;s independence and withdrawal from the Mali Federation (which had consisted of Mali and Senegal). In order to deal with the consequences of withdrawing from the federation, Prime Minister Mamadou Dia proclaimed a state of emergency on August 21, On August 25, , the National Assembly adopted a constitution creating a mixed parliamentary-presidential system in Senegal. The Republic of Senegal was formally proclaimed on September 5, , with Léopold Sédar Senghor as president (head of state) and Mamadou Moustapha Dia as prime minister (president of the member Council of Ministers). Senegal, a former colony of France, agreed to allow France to maintain several military bases in the country. Prime Minister Dia, who also served as Minister of Defense, shared authority over the Senegalese military with President Senghor. Prime Minister Dia used his emergency powers to begin implementation of &#;radical&#; agricultural reforms, including nationalization of peanut production, which were opposed by Preside
senegalesische Juristin und Politikerin; Ministerpräsidentin
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Herkunft
Mame Madior Boye, Jahrgang , wuchs in einer liberalen, weltoffenen Familie in der damaligen senegalesischen Hauptstadt Saint-Louis auf.
Ausbildung
Sie studierte Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften in Dakar und Paris.
Wirken
Ihren Beruf übte B. zunächst als Staatsanwältin aus. Später war sie Richterin, stellv. Vorsitzende des Regionalgerichts erster Klasse von Dakar und Vorsitzende des Appellationsgerichts. Als Juristin machte sich B. mit programmatischen Schriften zu Menschenrechtsfragen einen Namen. Vor ihrem Wechsel in die Politik war B. als Vertreterin des Kassationsgerichts bei einem privaten Bankunternehmen tätig.
Bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen im März siegte der Oppositionspolitiker Abdoulaye Wade über den langjährigen senegalesischen Präsidenten Abdou Diouf. Die parteipolitisch ungebundene B., bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt kaum in der Öffentlichkeit bekannt, wurde Justizministerin im Kabinett von Ministerpräsident Moustapha Niasse. Als ein Jahr später die aus 23 Parteien bestehende Koalition auseinander brach, wurde Niasse von Präsident Wade entlassen und am 3. März durch die Übergangskandida
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