Modou Diagne FADA

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Biography

Born February 3, 1969 in Darou Mousty in the region of Louga, Modou Diagne Fada is a Senegalese politician. Trader son, the native of Darou Mousty obtained his Bachelor of Series D in 1987 in Kaolack. This precious document will lead to the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, where the young science student also begin a career in politics. After several years of study, Fada Diagne manages to get his MA in Natural Sciences and then finally enrolled in Diploma of Advanced anda (Dea) animal biology. But his political commitment with Abdoulaye Wade, then Secretary General of the PDS, an opposition party, forced him to give up his will against Dea. "1994 is the year of my exclusion from the university while I was in Dea Biology. The rectories authorities no longer wanted me in college, "says the former youth minister under Wade. A year later Modou Diagne Fada joined the cabinet of his mentor, when the pope Sopi participating in the government of national unity. From 2000, with the accession to power of President Wade, the career of the young MP will now know a meteoric rise. Minister of Youth, Fada passes Minister of Environment and Protection of Nature in 2002. In 2005, its ascent is stopped by cooling its relations with the president. This period corresponds to his political career a real crossing of the desert. Between 2005 and 2007, he fights for political survival in the PDS before launching his movement Wi-Waar ( "Allotment of land" in Wolof) that gets three seats in the parliamentary elections in July 2007. In 2009, he comeback in the government as Minister of Health and Prevention, a position he held until 2012, year of the fall of the liberal regime. Again in opposition, former minister under the Liberals again becomes a member in the parliamentary elections of 2012, he currently chairs the destinies of the parliamentary Liberals and Democrats group in the National Assembly . In 2014 , he became the head of Kébémer County Council at the end of municipal and departmental elections on the basis of Act 3 of decentralization. October 15, 2015, Modou Diagne Fada is excluded from the PDS following his refusal to give way for President of the Parliamentary Group for Aida Mbodj, president-elect said group by the party. Following the dispute that led to its exclusion, policy founded his political party.