Ablaye seck fils idrissa seck biography
Ablaye seck fils idrissa seck biography
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Idrissa Seck
Senegalese politician
Idrissa Seck (born 9 August 1959[1]) is a Senegalese politician who was Prime Minister of Senegal from November 2002 to July 2004.
He was a leading member of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) and was considered a protégé of President Abdoulaye Wade, but he subsequently went into opposition and was a candidate in the February 2007 presidential election, coming second place with about 15% of the vote.[2]
Biography
He was born in Thiès[1][3] and studied in Paris as well as at Princeton University.[4] He joined the PDS when he was 15 years old and was Wade's campaign director in the 1988 Senegalese presidential election.[3]
Seck served as Minister of Trade, Crafts, and Industrialization as an opposition member of Abdou Diouf's government.[3] He became deputy leader of the PDS in 1998, replacing Ousmane Ngom.[3] After Wade took office in April 2000, he appoint