Mauritania: 8 presidents alive
Two former presidents submitted Ould Mohamed Salek, Colonel Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in one of the official events.
Nouakchott Mohammed Abu Maali
There is much talk in recent years about Mauritania as a country of coups and elections, and mixed up the names of their chairmen to some observers, has become many people do not distinguish between a sitting president and a former president of the name.
And characterized Mauritania as the Arab country that has seen the largest number of military coups in recent history, the most prominent and the irony is that the coup in order to succeed in Mauritania, it must be peaceful, and passes without bloodshed, but bloody coups usually devolves to failure, ending Bmnfvea to the guillotine executions, or the shackles of prison and bunkers and in the Diaspora.
Mauritania has broken the record as the only country currently across the world, which is still eight presidents alive, seven of them former, and all of us are staying in their home country with the exception of one residing in the State of Qatar.
These heads of some of them is still practiced political work, and aspires to return to the presidency, and others ye separate, public life, and living among the people as ordinary citizens.
The presidents Mauritanians Who is alive today were:
1 submitted Mustafa Ould Salek, who led the first military coup in Mauritania, in the tenth of July, 1978, when he was commander of the army, has presided over the fairway a military council to rule carries the name, "Military Committee for National Salvation" and continued his rule about ten months ago the Azaha colleague Colonel Ahmed Ould Boucif, who was prime minister, in a military coup quiet on the sixth of April 1979 ,, but was born Boucif died two months after taking office, in the incident of a plane crash near the Senegalese beaches, while returning from participating in one of the African summits.
2 second president, who ruled Mauritania and still yet alive, is Colonel Mohammed Mahmoud Ould Ahmed of the Crown, who took power after the death of Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Ould Boucif mid-1979, in the fourth of January 1980, ousted Prime Minister Onzlk submitted, Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, a fellow given to the Crown, in a bloodless coup and now lives quietly to the Crown in Nouakchott, the nature of the neighborhood live a life away from the limelight and politics.
3 third presidents of Mauritanians who are alive is submitted Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, who overthrew his colleague Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Ahmed Crown beginning of 1980, after less than eight months after taking office, and so as not to be repeated with the same scenario, which occurred from Ould Salek and was born to Crown, who was overthrown by the heads of the military and their ministers, born Haidalla was quick to appoint a civilian prime minister, is Sidi Ahmed Ould Abnejarh. But he was soon overtaken him and anger and put him in prison at the end of April 1981, accompanied by a number of politicians and officers.
During the reign of Ould Haidalla country saw the first coup attempt bloodiest in recent history, after the previous coups, just a shift of positions carried out by officers against each other without bloodshed operations, it has crept into the center of the capital Coma band stepping belonging to the organization Mauritanian leftist opposition. " Alliance for Mauritania democracy "led by two senior officers in the Mauritanian army, were members of the ruling military junta, namely Colonel Mohammed Ould Abdel Kader, Ahmed Salem Ould Sidi, the group has carried out the attempt, but it failed after bloody clashes with security forces in charge of guarding the presidency Republic, and units of the Mauritanian army, and arrested their leaders and executed, was sentenced Ould Haidalla lasted less than four years, before it is repeated with the same scenario that occurred former colleagues fairway and the Crown, he was overthrown Bold Haidalla at the hands of his prime minister, Colonel Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in the second ten of Djmbr 1984.
4 fourth presidents of Mauritanians who are alive, is Colonel Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, who ruled the country after he led a military coup against his colleague, Colonel Mohammed Khouna Ould Haidalla in the December 12, 1984, with the support of France, has been Ould Taya lasted the longest sentence in the history of the country, where he ruled for more than twenty years, and during his reign Hdht country several coup attempts failed, the first was in 1987, by a group of officers belonging to the minority of the Negro in the country, was aimed as announced, the establishment of Negro African country of Mauritania, and the exclusion of the majority of Arab political life.
In 1989 announced a new thwart a coup attempt, it was said that officers from the Baathists were planning her support of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime, dozens of them have been arrested and tried.
In November 2000 it announced a foiled coup again, mostly led by officers belonging to national stream of Nazareth.
But the coup attempt was the most serious against the Taya regime was in June 2003, led by Major Saleh Ould Hanenna which already arrested and farther from the military on charges of participating in an attempted coup in 2000, was the coup attempt was the most violent in the country's history, which saw the streets of Nouakchott, violent clashes light and heavy tanks and weapons, and continued for more than 36 hours, after which announced the attempt fails and the arrest of dozens of participants officers, and the disappearance of their leaders, have resulted in those clashes killed more than thirty people, including army commander and 15 soldiers injured.
Ould Taya has continued in power for two decades, and organized several presidential elections were always ends his victory in the first half, and described the opposition sham and counterfeit, to be overthrown by his colleague and comrade-in-arms, Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, who entrusted him Ould Taya over twenty years, job security director, Ould Taya and there are currently in Qatar, where he lives as a political refugee.
5 fifth presidents of Mauritanians who are alive, Col. Ely Ould Vall, who came to power on the third of August 2005, after leading a peaceful military coup against former President Taya, while the latter in Saudi Arabia to offer condolences on the death of the Custodian Two Holy Mosques late King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, was sentenced Ould Mohamed Vall, lasted nine months, and ended up organizing a presidential election won by Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi candidate, in March 2007, and in April of the same year he left Ould Mohamed Vall, the presidential palace returning to his home after he handed over power in a grand ceremony of President-elect Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, and there is Ely Ould Mohamed Vall currently in Nouakchott, he has announced his candidacy to run for the presidential elections scheduled to take place on the eighteenth of July next, hoping him to return to power, this time as the elected president and not a coup as an officer.
6 sixth Mauritanian presidents who are still alive, Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who ruled the country for a period of fifteen months after his inauguration in April 2007, and is considered Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the first president elected democratically governed Mauritania, however, his relationship with senior army officers who contributed to the coming to power, soon worsened because of the struggle for influence, has been able to senior officers of muster a parliamentary majority supporting them against Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, who responded to the intervention of senior officers in political life by issuing isolate whereby Chiefs leaders decree, so on the morning of the sixth of August, and two hours after the issuance of the resolution, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, the commander of the Republican Guard was, has tightened its grip on the reins of power and put Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed moratorium in custody, ending a brief period of civilian rule democratization of the country, marked by political turmoil.
7 seventh presidents Mauritanians neighborhoods, Gen. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who seized power in a military coup on the sixth of August 2008, against the elected President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, has his reign lasted eight months marked by political unrest, after escalating protests by supporters the former president who led by parliament speaker Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, and claimants to derail the coup and re-elected president to power.
He resigned Ould Abdel Aziz, and left the presidential palace in the eighteenth of April, 2009, in implementation of the road map for transition, and placed the military council and ratified by supporting him the parliamentary majority, and requires submitting to his resignation from the presidency of the state, before they run for the presidential election, which was scheduled to take place on the sixth of in June, and his successor, Senate president Ba Mamadou, nicknamed M'Bare, as the president of the Republic on behalf of as stipulated in the Mauritanian constitution, and the generosity of General Ould Abdel Aziz is currently in Nouakchott, to Mbacherth his campaign to run for the presidential entitlements decide postponed until April 18, 2009, after the Dakar agreement who recently signed between the political parties in Mauritania.
8 eighth presidents Mauritanians neighborhoods, is the current president Ba Mamadou, nicknamed M'Bare which has ruled the country on behalf of, the President of the Senate, is the first president of Mauritania belongs to a minority Negro, he took over as president after the resignation of General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on the eighteenth of April, and it was scheduled to leave office on the sixth of June, but that the presidential election postponed until the eighteenth next July, extending the life of his presidency nearly a month and a half.
And now it looks Mauritanians to figure out their next president, after the eighteenth of July elections, hoping to lead those elections to political stability missed the country's long and missed with the atmosphere and the climate of development you need today, more than the need for add a new name in the list of former presidents.