Prime Minister of Senegal
The Prime Minister of Senegal was the head of government of Senegal. The Prime Minister was appointed by the President of Senegal, who is directly elected for a five-year term. The Prime Minister, in turn, appointed the Senegalese cabinet.
| Prime Minister of the Republic of Senegal | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Appointer | Bassirou Diomaye Faye, as President of Senegal |
| Inaugural holder | Mamadou Dia |
| Formation | 18 May 1960 |
On 14 May 2019, the post was removed and no longer active.[1]
In November 2021, Macky Sall announced the return of the post of prime minister suppressed since 2019.
List
| № | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| — | Modibo Keïta | 1956 | 1958 | PSS | ||
| 1 |  |
Mamadou Dia (1910–2009) |
18 May 1958 | 18 December 1962 | 2 years,
213 days |
PSS |
| Post abolished (18 December 1962 – 26 February 1970) | ||||||
| 2 |  |
Abdou Diouf (1935–) |
26 February 1970 | 31 December 1980 | 10 years,
310 days |
PSS |
| 3 | .jpg) |
Habib Thiam (1933–2017) |
1 January 1981 | 3 April 1983 | 2 years,
93 days |
PSS |
| — |  |
Moustapha Niasse (1939–) Acting Prime Minister |
3 April 1983 | 29 April 1983 | 26 days | PSS |
| Post abolished (29 April 1983 – 8 April 1991) | ||||||
| (3) | |
Habib Thiam (1933–2017) |
8 April 1991 | 3 July 1998 | 7 years,
85 days |
PSS |
| 4 |  |
Mamadou Lamine Loum (1952–)[2] |
3 July 1998 | 5 April 2000 | 1 year,
275 days |
PSS |
| 5 | |
Moustapha Niasse (1939–)[2] |
5 April 2000 | 3 March 2001 | 332 days | AFP |
| 6 | |
Mame Madior Boye (1940–)[2] |
3 March 2001 | 4 November 2002 | 1 year,
246 days |
PDS |
| 7 |  |
Idrissa Seck |
4 November 2002 | 21 July 2004 | 1 year,
189 days |
PDS |
| 8 |  |
Macky Sall (1961–) |
21 July 2004 | 19 June 2007 | 2 years,
353 days |
PDS |
| 9 |  |
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré (1951–) |
19 June 2007 | 30 April 2009 | 1 year,
315 days |
Independent |
| 10 |  |
Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye (1958–) |
30 April 2009 | 5 April 2012 | 2 years,
340 days |
PDS |
| 11 | |
Abdoul Mbaye (1953–) |
5 April 2012 | 1 September 2013 | 1 year,
148 days |
Independent |
| 12 | .jpg) |
Aminata Touré (1962–) |
1 September 2013 | 8 July 2014 | 310 days | APR |
| 13 |  |
Mohammed Dionne (1959–2024) |
8 July 2014 | 14 May 2019 | 4 years,
50 days |
Independent |
| Post abolished (14 May 2019 – 17 September 2022) | ||||||
| 14 | 
|
Amadou Ba (born 1961) |
17 September 2022 | 6 March 2024 | 1 year, 171 days | APR |
| 15 | .jpg)
|
Sidiki Kaba (born 1950) |
6 March 2024 | 3 April 2024 | 28 days | APR |
| 16 | 
|
Ousmane Sonko (born 1974) |
3 April 2024 | Incumbent | 263 days | PASTEF |
References
- ↑ "Senegal President Sall tells PM to scrap his own post". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Les gouvernements successifs au SENEGAL". Afrique Express (in français). Archived from the original on 2011-09-09. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
