Idrissa Seck
| Idrissa Seck | |
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| Prime Minister of Senegal | |
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In office November 4, 2002 – April 21, 2004 |
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| President | Abdoulaye Wade |
| Preceded by | Mame Madior Boye |
| Succeeded by | Macky Sall |
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9 August 1960 Thiès, Senegal |
| Political party | Senegalese Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | mame penda |
Idrissa Seck (born August 9, 1960) is a Senegalese politician who was Prime Minister of Senegal from November 2002 to April 2004. He was a leading member of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) and was considered a protégé of President Abdoulaye Wade, but he subsequently went into opposition and was a candidate in the February 2007 presidential election, taking second place with about 15% of the vote.
He was born in Thiès and studied in Paris as well as at Princeton University. He joined the PDS when he was 15 years old and was Wade's campaign director in the February 1988 presidential election.
Seck served as Minister of Trade, Crafts, and Industrialization when the PDS participated in the government from March 1995 to March 1998. He became deputy leader of the PDS in 1998, replacing Ousmane Ngom. After Wade took office in April 2000, he appointed Seck as Minister of State and Director of the Cabinet. The PDS was restructured after this election; Seck's position of Executive Secretary was eliminated and he instead became Deputy National Secretary. He also became Mayor of Thiès.
Seck was appointed as prime minister by Wade on November 4, 2002, replacing Mame Madior Boye; this was the first time that Wade had appointed a prime minister from the PDS since he took office as president. Seck served as Prime Minister until April 21, 2004, when he was dismissed by Wade.
President Wade felt that Seck betrayed him. Seck was detained in July 2005 for alleged corruption in connection with a road project in Thiès, and he was additionally charged with threatening state security. In a decision made on August 4 and announced on August 6, he was expelled from the PDS by its steering committee, along with three of his supporters: Papa Diouf, Awa Gueye Kebe, and Oumar Sarr. He never faced trial; on January 27, 2006, the charge of threatening state security was dismissed, and in early February the corruption charges were also partially dismissed and he was released from prison. On April 4, 2006, he announced his intention to run for president in 2007.
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