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Mountaga Tall (born December 10, 1956) is a
Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...
an politician who is President of the
National Congress for Democratic Initiative The National Congress for Democratic Initiative (; ) is a political party in Mali, founded in 1990 and led by Mountaga Tall. In the first presidential election following the transition to democracy, held in 1992, Mountaga Tali received 11.41% of ...
(CNID)"Présidentielles: 24 sur la ligne de départ"
''L'Essor'', April 8, 2002 .
and served in the government of Mali as Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research from 2014 to 2016 and Minister of the Digital Economy and Communication from 2016 to 2017. Previously he was First Vice-President of the
National Assembly of Mali The National Assembly of Mali ( Bambara: ''Mali depitebulon'') is the unicameral country's legislative body of 147 voting members. Members of the National Assembly, called deputies, are elected by direct universal suffrage for a five-year term, ...
from 2002 to 2007.


Political career

Tall was born in
Ségou Ségou (; , ) is a town and an Communes of Mali, urban commune in south-central Mali that lies northeast of Bamako on the right bank of the River Niger. The town is the capital of the Ségou Cercle and the Ségou Region. With 130,690 inhabitant ...
. A
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by profession, he founded CNID and ran as the party's candidate in the 1992 presidential election, when he placed third with 11.41% of the votes, after
Alpha Oumar Konaré Alpha Oumar Konaré (born 2 February 1946) is a Malian politician, professor, historian and archaeologist, who served as President of Mali for two five-year terms from 1992 to 2002 and was Chairperson of the African Union Commission from 2003 ...
( ADEMA-PASJ) and Tiéoulé Konaté ( US-RDA).Elections in Mali
African Elections Database.
He served as a Deputy in the National Assembly from 1992 to 1997. The CNID, along with other opposition parties, boycotted the
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held on May 11, 1997. On May 12, Tall said that Konaré, who had been re-elected, was not legitimately President; Tall's office was attacked with
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s and badly damaged on the same day. Tall and CNID participated in a boycott of the July 1997 parliamentary election. He was one of many opposition leaders who were arrested on August 9, 1997, in connection with the killing of a police officer at a rally on August 8; they were charged on August 14. At a CNID party congress held in Bamako in early March 2002, Tall was nominated without opposition as the party's candidate for the April 2002 presidential election. He won 3.86% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election and took fifth place. In the July 2002 parliamentary election, Tall was part of a candidate list of the Espoir 2002 coalition, which included CNID, in Ségou constituency, and he was elected. Following this election, he became the First Vice-President of the National Assembly, remaining in that post through the five-year parliamentary term (2002–2007). When the Pan-African Parliament began meeting in March 2004, Tall became one of Mali's five members.List of members of the Pan-African Parliament
(as of March 15, 2004), African Union website.
Tall was again elected to a seat in the National Assembly in the July 2007 parliamentary election, running at the head of an ADEMA-CNID- URD list in Ségou."Liste provisoire des députés élus au 2è tour"
, ''L'Essor'', number 15,998, July 26, 2007 .
Although the list did not win a majority in its district in the first round, in the second round it won 63.89%. At the beginning of the new National Assembly's term on September 3, Tall was a candidate for the position of President of the National Assembly, but he was defeated by ADEMA President
Dioncounda Traoré Dioncounda Traoré (born 23 February 1942) is a Malian politician who was President of Mali in an interim capacity from April 2012 to September 2013. Previously he was President of the National Assembly of Mali from 2007 to 2012, and he served as ...
; Tall received 31 votes while Traoré received 111. In addition to serving in the National Assembly, Tall was also a member of the Parliament of the
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. In the November–December 2013 parliamentary election, Tall sought re-election to the National Assembly as a candidate in Ségou but was defeated in the second round of voting. Under President
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (; 29 January 1945 – 16 January 2022), often known by his initials IBK, was a Malian politician who served as the president of Mali from September 2013 to August 2020, when he was forced to resign in the 2020 Malian cou ...
, Tall was appointed to the government as Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research on 11 April 2014. He was moved to the post of Minister of the Digital Economy and Communication, as well as Government Spokesman, on 7 July 2016. He was dismissed from the government on 11 April 2017."Mali : le nouveau Premier ministre Abdoulaye Idrissa Maïga a formé son gouvernement, sans l’opposition"
Xinhua, 12 April 2017 .


References

* This article is based on a translation of the corresponding article from the
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, accessed 24 April 2005. {{DEFAULTSORT:Tall, Mountaga 1956 births Living people Members of the National Assembly (Mali) Members of the Pan-African Parliament from Mali National Congress for Democratic Initiative politicians People from Ségou Malian lawyers 21st-century Malian people