Abdoulaye Wade
Politician
1926 –
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Who is Abdoulaye Wade?
Abdoulaye Wade is a Senegalese politician who was President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party and has led the party since it was founded in 1974. A long-time opposition leader, he ran for President four times, beginning in 1978, before he was elected in 2000. He won re-election in 2007 with a majority in the first round, but in 2012 he was defeated in a controversial bid for a third term.
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- Born
- May 29, 1926
Kébémer Department - Spouses
- Viviane Wade
(1963 - )
- Viviane Wade
- Children
- Religion
- Islam
- Maliki
- Sunni Islam
- Ethnicity
- Wolof people
- Profession
- Education
- Lycée Condorcet
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on July 23, 2013
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