Falké Bacharou is a Nigerien politician. A member of the Democratic and Social Convention (CDS-Rahama), he was Second Vice-President of the National Assembly of Niger from 2004 to 2009.[1][2]
Political career
editBacharou was elected to the National Assembly in the February 1993 parliamentary election[3] as a CDS candidate in Dosso constituency.[4] He then served as Secretary-General of the Presidency under President Mahamane Ousmane.[5] He was the campaign director for the CDS during the January 1995 parliamentary election. After the CDS lost the election, depriving President Ousmane of a parliamentary majority and forcing him to cohabit with the opposition, Bacharou alleged that irregularities had affected the results.[6] Ousmane was ousted a year later in a January 1996 military coup. Bacharou was one of those arrested following an opposition demonstration on January 11, 1997.[5]
Bacharou was elected to the National Assembly in the December 2004 parliamentary election from Dosso,[7] and he was elected as the Second Vice-President of the National Assembly for the parliamentary term that followed.[1]
Bacharou was a National Vice-President of the CDS, representing Dosso, until he was replaced by Maïdagi Alambaye at the party's sixth congress on September 1, 2007.[8]
Bacharou was again elected to the National Assembly in the January 2011 parliamentary election.[9] When the Bureau of the National Assembly was elected in April 2011, the post of Second Vice-President, reserved for the opposition, was left vacant.[10] Subsequently Bacharou was elected as Second Vice-President of the National Assembly.[11]
References
edit- ^ a b Page at the National Assembly of Niger website, archived February 13, 2005 (in French).
- ^ "Global Programme for Parliamentary Strengthening II, Mid-Term Evaluation Report" (Appendix Four)[permanent dead link], United Nations Development Programme, February 2007.
- ^ "Afrique de l'Ouest - Niger - Cour suprême - 1993 - Arrêt no 93-10/cc du 18 mars 1993"[permanent dead link], droit.francophonie.org (in French).
- ^ "Afrique de l'Ouest - Niger - Cour suprême - 1993 - Arrêt no 93-3/cc du 1er février 1993"[permanent dead link], droit.francophonie.org (in French).
- ^ a b "Les suites de la manifestation du 11 janvier 1997" Archived December 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Afrique Express (in French).
- ^ "L'opposition nigérienne aurait gagné de peu les législatives", AFP (liberation.fr), 16 January 1995 (in French).
- ^ List of deputies elected in the 2004 election by constituency, National Assembly website (2005 archive) (in French).
- ^ Yahaya Garba, "6ème congrès de la CDS-Rahama: Un congrès expéditif et sans enjeu"[permanent dead link], Roue de l’Histoire n° 368, September 5, 2007 (Tamtaminfo.com, September 6, 2007) (in French).
- ^ "Arrêt n° 009/11/CCT/ME du 16 mars 2011"[permanent dead link], Transitional Constitutional Council, 16 March 2011 (in French).
- ^ Mahaman Bako, "Assemblée nationale : mise en place du Bureau de l'Assemblée", Le Sahel, 22 April 2011 (in French).
- ^ "Assemblée nationale : les membres du Bureau de l'Assemblée reconduits pour un nouveau mandat d'un an" Archived 2013-06-24 at archive.today, Le Sahel, 23 April 2012 (in French).