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Mamadou Koulibaly
Ivorian politician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Ivorian politician. For the Senegalese footballer, see Mamadou Coulibaly.
Mamadou Koulibaly (born 21 April 1957) is an Ivorian politician, Chairman of LIDER (Liberté et Démocratie pour la République), a classical liberal political party he founded in July 2011. Previously, he was President of the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire from 2001 to 2011, Minister of the Budget in 2000 and Minister of Economy and Finance from 2000 to 2001.[1] For years he was leading member of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), briefly leading the party in an interim capacity in 2011 before quitting it.
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