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Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, often referred to by his initials IBK, born on in Koutiala (AOF), is a Malian statesman, President of the Republic since . Previously, he served as Prime Minister from 1994 to 2000 and President of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007.
He left for France at the age of 13 1 attend secondary school at Janson-de-Sailly High School in Paris and at Askia-Mohamed High School in Bamako. He studied at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Dakar, then at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University and at the Institute of History of Contemporary International Relations (IHRIC), attached to the same university. He holds a master's degree in history and a diploma of advanced studies in politics and international relations.
After his studies, he is a research fellow at the CNRS and teaches the Third World's political systems to the University of Paris Tolbiac. Back in Mali, he became Senior Technical Advisor of the European Development Fund (EDF), responsible for the implementation of the first micro-projects program by the European Economic Community in Mali. He is then director-representative of Terre des Hommes France (TDHF), French and international NGO for Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
Returning to Mali in 1986 1 he is militant of the Alliance for Democracy in Mali-African Party for Solidarity and Justice (Adema-PASJ), he is the deputy director of Alpha Oumar Konaré's campaign for the presidential election in April and May 1992. After his election , the new president appointed him in diplomatic adviser, spokesman of the President of the Republic of Mali. In he was appointed Ambassador of Mali to Ivory Coast, Gabon, Burkina Faso and Niger
In he became Minister of Foreign Affairs Foreigners, Malians Abroad and African Integration. A few months later, President Alpha Oumar Konaré appointed him Prime Minister. He held this position until . He presides ADEMA-PASJ.
In 1999, he becomes vice-president of the Socialist International.
With the approach of the presidential election of 2002, he fails to impose his candidacy to succeed to Alpha Oumar Konaré and he resigns from Prime Minister on then from the presidency of the party in . He left Adéma-PASJ with his supporters to found the Rassemblement pour le Mali (RPM), a formation he presided over .
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was chairman of the executive committee of the African Parliamentary Union
Candidate for the presidential election, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta won 329,149 votes, or 21.15% of the votes cast, in the first round of the presidential election on April 28, 2002. Only qualified for the second round Amadou Toumani Toure (28.87%) and Soumaïla Cissé (21.44%, a little more than 4,000 votes difference with Keïta). IBK disputes these results, but supports Amadou Toumani Toure, who will be elected in the second round on 12 May, with 65.01% of the votes cast.
After the parliamentary elections, his coalition won the more seats 1 and he is elected president of the National Assembly.
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is invested by the Rally for Mali on during his 2 e Ordinary Congress in Bamako 2
He focused his campaign on an opposition to the governance practices of the outgoing President Amadou Toumani Touré and his policies. It rejects consensus as a mode of government. During the campaign, he accuses the supporters of Amadou Toumani Toure to use the means of the state and denounces the attempts of fraud.
It obtains 19,15% of the voices, placing itself in second position behind the outgoing president Amadou Toumani Touré, reelected from the first round 3 . He achieved his best score in the district of Bamako with 38.48% of votes 4 .
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta disputes these results, accusing the supporters of the outgoing President of fraud. He joined other opposition candidates in the Front for Democracy and Republic (FDR), Tiébilé Dramé, Mamadou Bakary Sangaré and Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga. The Constitutional Court rejects on May 12 the applications filed by these candidates. Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, on behalf of the FDR he chairs, while maintaining his accusations of fraud, takes note of the decision of the Constitutional Court and recognizes in Amadou Toumani Toure the President of Mali 3 [19659018] .
The Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta is nominated candidate of the Rally for Mali in the Malian presidential election of 2012 6 (which will finally be postponed to July 2013). The Although observers agree that the party and its president are losing steam 1 nine political parties joined the Rally for Mali to appeal to a candidacy of the former prime minister. These include the Movement for Independence, Renaissance and African Integration (Miria), the Union of Malians for Progress (UMP), the African Front for Mobilization and Action (Fama), the Rally of the Republican Democrats (RDR), the Rally for Justice in Mali (RJD), the Party of Difference in Mali (PDM), the Socialist Democratic Party of Mali (PSDM), the Party Sigikafo Oyedamouyé (PSO), and of the Democratic Concertation 7 .
Finally, the coup d'état of 2012 puts it back in the saddle thanks to a particularly clever strategy leading it to reject the putsch, very popular, while accepting consultations with the military 1 . The election finally took place in 2013, after the coup and the war against the jihadists; he arrives at the top of the first round and faces Soumaïla Cissé on August 11, 2013 for the second round. The next day, and before the official proclamation of the official results, her rival Soumaïla Cissés spontaneously returned in the evening to his home, with wife and children, to congratulate him and recognize his victory.
The official results are proclaimed on August 15, 2013: Keïta is elected with 77.6% of the votes against 22.4% for Cissé 8 .
He takes the oath on September 4, 2013 before the Supreme Court 9
On he declared his candidacy for a second term for the presidential election of 2018.
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