Amadou Toumani Touré was a Malian politician. He supervised Mali's first multiparty elections as chairman of the transitional government (1991–1992),and later became the second democratically elected President of Mali (2002–2012).
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta,often known by his initials IBK,was a Malian politician who served as the president of Mali from September 2013 to August 2020,when he was forced to resign in the 2020 Malian coup d'état. He served as Mali's prime minister from February 1994 to February 2000 and as president of the National Assembly of Mali from September 2002 to September 2007.
The National Congress for Democratic Initiative is a political party in Mali,founded in 1990 and led by Mountaga Tall.
Mountaga Tall is a Malian politician who is President of the National Congress for Democratic Initiative (CNID) and served in the government of Mali as Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research from 2014 to 2016 and Minister of the Digital Economy and Communication from 2016 to 2017. Previously he was First Vice-President of the National Assembly of Mali from 2002 to 2007.
Daba Diawara is a Malian politician.
The Rally for Mali is a Malian political party created by Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in June 2001. In 2013,Keita was elected President of Mali following several unsuccessful attempts,and the party took first place in parliamentary elections,winning 66 seats,although not enough for a majority.
The Alliance for Democracy in Mali –African Party for Solidarity and Justice is a political party in Mali.
The Party for National Rebirth is a Malian political party,created in 1995 by activists from the National Congress for Democratic Initiative (CNID). The Party for National Rebirth is headed by TiébiléDramé,who ran for the presidency in 2002,gaining 4% of the votes,coming in fourth place. In February 2007,he was again nominated as the party's presidential candidate for the April 2007 presidential election,receiving third place and 3.04% of the vote.
African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence is a communist party in Mali. It was founded by Cheick Oumar Sissoko and Oumar Mariko in 1996;Sissoko is the party's President and Mariko is its Secretary-General,the top post in the party. The party is Pan-Africanist in ideology,is affiliated internationally with the International Communist Seminar,a grouping organised by the Workers Party of Belgium,and is in part an outgrowth of the 1991 demonstrations against the military rule of President Moussa Traoré. Mariko was head of the Association of Students and Pupils of Mali (AEEM) during the 1991 protest movement which overthrew the government.
Presidential elections were held in Mali on 29 April 2007. Incumbent president Amadou Toumani Touréran for re-election against seven other candidates and won in the first round with about 71% of the vote.
Parliamentary elections were held in Mali on 1 July 2007,with a second round on 22 July. In the first round,there were about 1,400 candidates for 147 seats in the National Assembly.
SidibéAminata Diallo is a Malian academic and politician. Sidibe Aminata Diallo is a professor in town planning at the University of Bamako and has previously worked for UNESCO.
The Front for Democracy and the Republic is an opposition coalition in Mali that fought the presidential election on 29 April 2007 and the parliamentary election of 1 July and 22 July 2007. The FDR is an umbrella organisation,bringing together 16 independent political parties and groups. It rejected the official results of the election,according to which incumbent president Amadou Toumani Touréwon with about 71% of the vote,and alleged fraud,unsuccessfully asking the Constitutional Court to annul the election. On 19 May,the leading FDR candidate,National Assembly president Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita,said that the group would abide by the court's decision to confirm Touré's victory and would concentrate on the July 2007 parliamentary election.
Oumar Mariko is a Malian politician,doctor and noted former student activist. He is the Secretary-General of African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence (SADI),a left-wing political party,and has three times run for President of Mali,in 2002,2007 and 2013.
Mamadou Bakary "Blaise" Sangaré is a Malian politician. He is the President of the Social Democratic Convention (CDS-Mogotigiya).
Dioncounda Traoré is a Malian politician who was President of Mali in an interim capacity from April 2012 to September 2013. Previously he was President of the National Assembly of Mali from 2007 to 2012,and he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1997. He was President of the Alliance for Democracy in Mali-African Party for Solidarity and Justice (ADEMA-PASJ) beginning in 2000,and he was also President of the Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ADP),an alliance of parties that supported the re-election of President Amadou Toumani Touréin 2007.
Modibo Sidibé is a Malian politician who was Prime Minister of Mali from September 2007 to April 2011.
Lassana Traoré is a Malian political figure and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali from 2002 to 2004.
The Malian Party of Labour is a Marxist-Leninist party in Mali and a member of the coalition supporting the Alliance for Democracy in Mali of president Amadou Toumani Touré. Founded in 1965,it was prominent in the student resistance to the 1968-1991 military regime of General Moussa Traoré. It continues as an extra-parliamentary Hoxhaist-Communist faction within the Social-Democratic ADEMA-PASJ coalition,supporters of the Alliance for Democracy and Progress.
Presidential elections were held in Mali on 28 July 2013,with a second round run-off held on 11 August. Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta defeated Soumaïla Cisséin the run-off to become the new President of Mali.
