Lamine Sidimé

Lamine Sidimé (* 1944) was from 1999 to 2004 Prime Minister of Guinea.

Jurist

Sidimé studied law in Paris. In 1980 he was appointed to the University of Dakar. After the fall of longtime authoritarian ruling President Ahmed Sékou Touré in 1984, he returned back to his home and worked at the University of Conakry. Since 1985 he is Professor of Private Law.

In 1990 he was a member of the Commission, which drew up a new constitution, which came into force in 1991. The reigning since 1984, President Lansana Conté appointed him in 1992 as President of the Supreme Court ( Cour Suprême ) of the country.

Political career

Sidimé belongs to Conté's party Parti de l' Unité et du Progres (PUP ), which won 71 of 114 seats in the parliamentary elections in June 1995. On 8 March 1999, he was appointed prime minister. One focus of his government work was a liberalization of the economy and the privatization of state enterprises. The parliamentary elections on 30 June 2002 his party won 85 of 144 seats, with the exclusion of the top opposition candidates, Alpha Condé, led to a boycott of the election of a part of the opposition. Sidimé entered to allow of his office by the President, a Cabinet reshuffle on 23 February 2004.

On 1 August 2005 he was appointed a second time as President of the Supreme Court.