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19-543: In the first presidential election following the transition to democracy, held in 1992, Mountaga Tali received 11.41% of votes and placed third. In 1995, a group of militants led by Tiébilé Dramé left the CNID to start the Party for National Renewal ( French : Parti pour la renaissance nationale , PARENA). The CNID, along with other opposition parties, boycotted the presidential election held on May 11, 1997. It also participated in

38-604: A boycott of the July 1997 parliamentary election . In 2002, Mountaga Tall received 3.77% in the first round of the presidential election . In the parliamentary election , held on 14 July 2002, the party won 13 out of 147 seats in the National Assembly as a part of the Hope 2002 coalition. The CNID backed incumbent President Amadou Toumani Touré in the April 2007 presidential election . In

57-522: A journalist, Dramé founded the weekly newspaper Le républicain ("The Republican") in 1992. Since May 6, 2019, Tiébilé Dramé serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Mali, within the frame of the political agreement signed by the majority and the opposition. Mountaga Tall Mountaga Tall (born December 10, 1956) is a Malian politician who is President of the National Congress for Democratic Initiative (CNID) and served in

76-510: Is a Malian politician who served in the government of Mali as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 1992. In the years since, he has remained active on the political scene, while also acting as a diplomat and mediator in regional crises . Since May 6, 2019 again served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs until the 2020 Malian coup d'état . Dramé was born in Nioro du Sahel . He studied at

95-650: The April 2002 presidential election . He won 3.86% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election and took fifth place. In the July 2002 parliamentary election , Tall was part of a candidate list of the Espoir 2002 coalition, which included CNID, in Ségou constituency, and he was elected. Following this election, he became the First Vice-President of the National Assembly, remaining in that post through

114-745: The Ecole Normale Supérieure of Bamako before obtaining his Advanced studies diploma (French: Diplôme d'études avancées , DEA, an advanced pre-doctoral degree) in African history from the University of Paris (I). His political activity began during his studies. From 1977 to 1980, he was one of leaders of the Malian National Students' Union ( Union Nationale des Elèves et Etudiants du Mali , UNEEM), which opposed Moussa Traoré 's regime in Mali. Dramé

133-486: The July 2007 parliamentary election , the CNID, part of the Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ADP), won seven out of 147 seats. In January 2008, the party was in the midst of a dispute between its two top leaders: Tall, its President, and N'Diaye Bah , its Secretary-General (as well as Minister of Crafts and Tourism in the government). According to Bah, Tall had wanted to run as the party's 2007 presidential candidate, but

152-583: The November–;December 2013 parliamentary election , Tall sought re-election to the National Assembly as a candidate in Ségou but was defeated in the second round of voting. Under President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta , Tall was appointed to the government as Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research on 11 April 2014. He was moved to the post of Minister of the Digital Economy and Communication, as well as Government Spokesman, on 7 July 2016. He

171-512: The five-year parliamentary term (2002–2007). When the Pan-African Parliament began meeting in March 2004, Tall became one of Mali's five members. Tall was again elected to a seat in the National Assembly in the July 2007 parliamentary election , running at the head of an ADEMA-CNID- URD list in Ségou. Although the list did not win a majority in its district in the first round, in

190-486: 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. Tall was born in Ségou . A lawyer by profession, he founded CNID and ran as the party's candidate in the 1992 presidential election , when he placed third with 11.41% of

209-482: The others in the party opposed this, believing that it was in the party's interests to back Touré. Tall and Bah were each suspended from the party's steering committee by supporters of their rival, and both of them claimed that the suspension decisions against them were taken by small groups surrounding their rival. Bah criticized Tall for allegedly considering the party to be his "private property". Ti%C3%A9bil%C3%A9 Dram%C3%A9 Tiébilé Dramé (born June 9, 1955 )

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228-710: The results and sought for the election to be annulled, alleging fraud. The list on which Dramé was running in Nioro du Sahel in the July 2007 parliamentary election (together with ADEMA and the Union for the Republic and Democracy ) was rejected by the Constitutional Court, which said that he had multiple birth certificates. Dramé acted as a United Nations envoy dealing with the early 2009 political crisis in Madagascar . Also

247-460: The same day. Tall and CNID participated in a boycott of the July 1997 parliamentary election . He was one of many opposition leaders who were arrested on August 9, 1997, in connection with the killing of a police officer at a rally on August 8; they were charged on August 14. At a CNID party congress held in Bamako in early March 2002, Tall was nominated without opposition as the party's candidate for

266-553: The second round it won 63.89%. At the beginning of the new National Assembly's term on September 3, Tall was a candidate for the position of President of the National Assembly, but he was defeated by ADEMA President Dioncounda Traoré ; Tall received 31 votes while Traoré received 111. In addition to serving in the National Assembly, Tall was also a member of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States . In

285-426: The votes, after Alpha Oumar Konaré ( ADEMA-PASJ ) and Tiéoulé Konaté ( US-RDA ). He served as a Deputy in the National Assembly from 1992 to 1997. The CNID, along with other opposition parties, boycotted the presidential election held on May 11, 1997. On May 12, Tall said that Konaré, who had been re-elected, was not legitimately President; Tall's office was attacked with molotov cocktails and badly damaged on

304-451: The votes, taking fourth place. On February 18, 2007, he was nominated as the candidate of PARENA for the April 2007 presidential election . According to official results, Touré won the election by a landslide, while Dramé took third place and 3.04% of the vote. As part of the Front for Democracy and the Republic , a coalition that also included three other presidential candidates, Dramé disputed

323-520: Was Minister of Foreign Affairs in the transitional government from 1991 to 1992. In 1995, he was a consultant for the United Nations to prepare a human rights survey operation in Burundi . That same year, in disagreement with Mountaga Tall , founder of the CNID, he left the party with other militants to found the Party for National Renaissance ( Parti pour la renaissance nationale , PARENA), of which he

342-570: Was elected Secretary-General. In 1996, he was appointed as Minister of Arid and Semi-Arid Zones in Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta 's government. He was elected to the National Assembly as a Deputy from Nioro du Sahel in 1997. In November 1999, he became President of PARENA. In 2001, he was elected as President of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). He ran in the April 2002 presidential election and obtained 3.99% of

361-619: Was imprisoned on several occasions for his opposition to the regime. He then went into exile in Europe, where he worked for Amnesty International from 1988 to 1991. He conducted surveys on the human rights situation in West Africa. A militant for the Malian National Congress for Democratic Initiative ( Congrès national d’initiative démocratique , CNID), Dramé returned to Mali when Amadou Toumani Touré toppled Traoré's regime in 1991. He

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