Dramane Dembélé is a Malian politician who served in the government of Mali as Minister of Urban Planning and Housing from 2015 to 2016. A mining engineer by profession, he was Director-General of Geology and Mines from 2005 to 2010. He was the candidate of the Alliance for Democracy in Mali (Adéma-PASJ) for the July 2013 presidential election.
Career edit
Dembélé became a member of Adéma-PASJ's executive committee in 2004, and he served as Director-General of Geology and Mines from 2005 to 2010.[1] On 10 April 2013, he was designated as Adéma-PASJ's candidate for the July 2013 presidential election. Party leader Dioncounda Traoré was Adéma-PASJ's original candidate for the vote when it was first scheduled to be held, in 2012, but in the wake of the March 2012 coup d'état he was allowed by the ruling junta to take up the post of interim President, and he consequently agreed not to stand as a presidential candidate.[2]
Dembélé placed third in the election, receiving 9.6% of the vote. On 3 August 2013, he announced his support for Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in the second round, saying that "we are in the Socialist International, we share the same values". However, in endorsing Keita he contradicted the official stance of Adéma-PASJ, which had backed Keita's rival, Soumaïla Cissé, on the previous day. The party stressed that Dembélé was speaking only for himself and that the party still supported Cissé.[3]
Under President Keita, Dembélé was appointed to the government as Minister of Urban Planning and Housing on 10 January 2015.[4][5] He was dismissed from the government on 7 July 2016.[6]
References edit
- ^ Mamadou Fofana, "Présidentielle du 7 juillet 2013 : Dramane Dembélé désigné candidat de l’ADEMA-PASJ", Maliweb, 10 April 2013 (in French). "Présidentielle du 7 juillet 2013 : Dramane Dembélé désigné candidat de l'ADEMA-PASJ - maliweb.net". Archived from the original on 13 April 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Mali's leading party picks candidate for July presidential poll", Reuters, 10 April 2013. "Mali's leading party picks candidate for July presidential poll - AlertNet". Archived from the original on 12 April 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
- ^ "Mali : ralliement surprise de Dramane Dembélé au favori IBK", Agence France-Presse, 3 August 2013 (in French).
- ^ "Mali : composition du nouveau gouvernement formé le 10 janvier", Xinhua, 11 January 2015 (in French).
- ^ "Mali : sept ministres quittent le nouveau gouvernement", Agence France-Presse, 11 January 2015 (in French).
- ^ "Urgent – Remaniement ministériel : la liste du nouveau Gouvernement", Maliweb, 7 July 2016 (in French).
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