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Malians will go to the polls on Sunday to vote in a presidential election that, according to observers, will test the stability of the country.
As tensions and ethnic clashes continue across the country, especially in the North, there are doubts. Elections will be held in some areas, but the West African country has a long history of relatively peaceful elections.
On July 4, the Constitutional Court validated 24 candidates for the presidential race on July 29 and six applications were rejected. 19659004] Outgoing President of Mali Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who took office in 2013, and Soumaila Cisse, opposition favorite, should be the two leading candidates in an area that also includes former Prime Minister Cheick Mohamed Abdoulaye Souad known as Modibo Diarra. the ministers Choguel Kokala Maiga, Mohamed Ali Bathily and Mountaga Tall, the religious leader Harouna Sankaré and the businesswoman Djeneba N Diaye are also among the candida
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, 73 year old, known as IBK announced on May 28 that he would seek a second term in the upcoming elections.
"I run as a candidate for the presidential election on July 29," Keita told state television. "I'm asking you to trust me again."
Born January 29, 1945, IBK is President of Mali since 2013, having won with a landslide (77%) after the election went to a
IBK was prime minister of Mali from 1994 to 2000, before founding a political party, Rally for Mali ( RPM ) in 2002.
He was president of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007.
Keita was born in Koutiala in central Mali and studied at the Sorbonne and Askia-Mohamed High School in Bamako, capital of Mali
. , political science and international relations.
Keita is married to Aminata Maïga Keïta, the First Lady of Mali, and has four children. His son Karim is a member of the National Assembly and married to a daughter of Issaka Sidibe, president of the National Assembly.
Soumaila Cisse
Born December 20, 1949, Cissé is a Malian politician who served in the government. of Mali as Finance Minister from 1993 to 2000.
He was twice winner of the presidential election in 2002 and 2013, losing in the second round of voting on both occasions.
Since 2014, he is President of the Union for the Republic and Democracy and leader of the opposition to the National Assembly.
Born in Timbuktu, Cissé studied at the Institute of Engineering Sciences of Montpellier France to become a software engineer. He worked in several large French companies before returning to Mali in 1984 to work for the Malian Company for the Development of Textiles ( CMDT ).
Cisse is married to Astan Traore with whom he has four children.
Mohamed Ali Bathily
Born on March 30, 1952 in Bamako, Bathily is a politician and a lawyer.
He served on several levels of government, including as a senior magistrate, law professor, cabinet director under three different ministers of justice. He was also Ambbadador of Mali to Senegal.
In September 2013, he was appointed Minister of Justice in the Oumar Tatam Ly government. He then took over the Ministry of Lands and Land Affairs in January 2015 and was also Minister of Planning, Housing and Land Affairs from April 2017 to December 2017.
Married and father of five, Bathily enjoys reading and sports. 19659006] Djeneba N & # 39; Diaye
Successful businesswoman, Ms. Kanté Diébou N & # 39; Diaye is an independent candidate.
She is the only female candidate in the field of 24 presidential candidates and claims to be accustomed to baduming people traditionally call "the world of one man".
"What a man can do, a woman can do … the only differences, barriers or limitations are those we create for ourselves," according to Diaye. Dembélé
Born on April 8, 1967, Dramane is a candidate in the presidential election of the Alliance for the Redemption of Democracy in Mali ( ARDEMA ).
Dramane was appointed Minister of Planning and Housing Government Keïta in January 2015, before forming ARDEMA as a vehicle for its political ambitions.
He studied science at Ségou High School in 1988 joined the National School of Engineers (19459008) ENI ) in Bamako where he graduated as a geological engineer in 1993.
Dramane is married and father of three children
Cheick Modibo Diarra
in 1952 in Nioro du Sahel, Cheick Mohamed Abdoulaye Souad affectionately known as Modibo is a Malian astrophysicist, businessman and man of 39; State.
Diarra was appointed interim Prime Minister of Mali on April 17, 2012 to help restore the civil power after the coup d'état of March 2012
After completing secondary school in Mali, Diarra studied the mathematics, physics and badytical mechanics in Paris at Pierre and Marie Curie University. He then obtained a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, both at Howard University in Washington, DC
Diarra was the president of Microsoft Africa from 2006 to the end of 2011.
Turning to Malian politics, he founded the Rally for the Development of Mali, a political party, in March 2011, and he intended to run for the 2012 presidential election. [19659003] The father of three children said that he was a candidate for the Malian presidency. his desire to improve the lives of the country's rural poor.
Aliou Boubacar Diallo
Born on November 18, 1959, Diallo is a businessman and Malian politician.
He is president and CEO of Wbadoul & # 39; s Gold, who made the first attempt to explore and operate an industrial gold mine in Mali.
In January 2013, he created the Democratic Alliance for Peace – Maliba ( ADP -Maliba), a political party whose mission is to "renew the politics of Mali" in " building a democratic and prosperous Mali through the social market economy.
Aliou Diallo excelled at the Bamako Technical High School. He was awarded a scholarship to study at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Politics of Tunis from 1979 to 1981. He then went to the University of Bamako. University of Picardy in France to obtain a diploma and a master's degree in economics and financial management (1982
Diallo is married and described as a "father to a large family"
The other candidates are:
- Choguel Kokalla Maiga, Patriotic Movement for Renewal ( MPR ]), telec communications engineer by profession
- Harouna Sankare, Harouna Movement 2018, trade unionist and religious leader
- Housseini Amion Guindo aka 'Poulo & , Convergence for the development of Mali ( CODEM ), politician
- Mamadou Oumar Sidibe, Party for the restoration of the values of Mali ( PRVM – FASOKO ), customs officer
- Moussa Sinko Coulibaly, Platform for change, retired soldier
- Niankoro Yeah Samake, Party for Civic and Patriotic Action ( PACP ), social entrepreneur and man political
- Modibo Kone, Mali Kanu Movement, design engineer
- Daba Diawara, Party of Independence, Democracy and Solidarity ( PIDS ), politician
- Mamadou Diarra, Mali Movement in Action, Banker
- Mamadou Traore, Unionist Party, Entrepreneur
- Modibo Sidibe, Fare An Ka Wili, Police Officer
- Hamadoun Toure, Kayira Alliance, Engineer
- Modibo Kadjoke, APM -Maliko, activist and politician
- Adama Kane, Movement FASO Kêwalé all for Mali, chartered accountant
- Kalfa Sanogo, Kalifa Coalition 2018, forest engineer [19659046] Oumar Mariko, African Solidarity p our Democracy and Independence ( SADI ), doctor and politician
- Mountaga Tall, National Committee of Initiative National-Fbado Yiriwa-ton ( CNID – FYT ), politician
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