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 seven-year term. The Prime Minister, in turn, appointed the Senegalese cabinet.

Prime Minister of the
Republic of Senegal
Coat of Arms of Senegal
Incumbent
Amadou Ba

since 17 September 2022
AppointerMacky Sall,
as President of Senegal
Inaugural holderMamadou Dia
Formation18 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On 14 May 2019, the post was removed and no longer active.[1]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
1 Mamadou Dia
(1910–2009)
18 May 196018 December 1962 2 years,

213 days

PSS
Post abolished (18 December 1962 – 26 February 1970)
2 Abdou Diouf
(1935–)
26 February 197031 December 1980 10 years,

310 days

PSS
3 Habib Thiam
(1933–2017)
1 January 19813 April 1983 2 years,

93 days

PSS
Moustapha Niasse
(1939–)
Acting Prime Minister
3 April 198329 April 1983 26 daysPSS
Post abolished (29 April 1983 – 8 April 1991)
(3) Habib Thiam
(1933–2017)
8 April 19913 July 1998 7 years,

85 days

PSS
4 Mamadou Lamine Loum
(1952–)[2]
3 July 19985 April 2000 1 year,

275 days

PSS
5 Moustapha Niasse
(1939–)[2]
5 April 20003 March 2001 332 daysAFP
6 Mame Madior Boye
(1940–)[2]
3 March 20014 November 2002 1 year,

246 days

PDS
7 Idrissa Seck
(1960–)
[2]
4 November 200221 July 2004 1 year,

189 days

PDS
8 Macky Sall
(1961–)
21 July 200419 June 2007 2 years,

353 days

PDS
9 Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré
(1951–)
19 June 200730 April 2009 1 year,

315 days

Independent
10 Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye
(1958–)
30 April 20095 April 2012 2 years,

340 days

PDS
11 Abdoul Mbaye
(1953–)
5 April 20121 September 2013 1 year,

148 days

Independent
12 Aminata Touré
(1962–)
1 September 20138 July 2014 310 daysAPR
13 Mohammed Dionne
(1961–)
8 July 201414 May 2019 4 years,

50 days

Independent
Post abolished (14 May 2019 – 17 September 2022)
14 Amadou Ba
(born 1961)
17 September 2022 Incumbent 279 days Independent

References

  1. "Senegal President Sall tells PM to scrap his own post". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  2. "Les gouvernements successifs au SENEGAL". Afrique Express (in French). Archived from the original on 2011-09-09. Retrieved 29 June 2011.


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