Marie Lebihan was a

Niger Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state Geography of Niger#Political geography, bordered by Libya to the Libya–Niger border, north-east, Chad to the Chad–Niger border, east ...

ien politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the

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in 1989.

Biography

A member of the

National Movement for the Development of Society The National Movement for the Society of Development, also known as the National Movement for the Development of Society (, MNSD-Nassara) was a political party in Niger. Founded under the military government of the 1974–1990 period, it was th ...

(MNSD), Lebihan was nominated as a candidate for the National Assembly in Maradi in the

1989 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1989. Africa * 1989 Beninese parliamentary election * 1989 Botswana general election * 1989 Equatorial Guinean presidential election * 1989 People's Republic of the Congo parliamentary election * 1989 ...

. With the MNSD being the sole legal party, she was elected unopposed, becoming one of the first group of five women elected to the National Assembly.Alice J. Kang (2015
''Bargaining for Women's Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy''
pp117–118 The National Assembly was dissolved in 1991 and she was not re-elected in the 1993 elections.

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