Jacques sylla biography

Jacques Sylla

Jacques Hugues Sylla (22 July 1946[1][2] – 26 December 2009) was a Malagasypolitician. He was the Prime Minister of Madagascar under President Marc Ravalomanana from February 2002 to January 2007. He subsequently served as the President of the National Assembly of Madagascar from October 2007 to March 2009.[3]

Life and career

Sylla was born on the island of Sainte-Marie, Analanjirofo,[4] off the east coast of Madagascar. He was the son of Albert Sylla, who served as Foreign Minister under Madagascar's first President, Philibert Tsiranana,[5][6] until being killed in a plane crash in July 1967.[6] He served as Foreign Minister himself from 1993 to 1996, under President Albert Zafy. He was an opponent of President Didier Ratsiraka and was one of the lawyers advising Marc Ravalomanana when he was elected Mayor of Antananarivo in 1999.[5] Sylla was also a founder of the Toamasina section of the National Committee for the Observation of Elections.[6][7]

Jacques Sylla

POLITICIAN

1946 - 2009

Jacques Sylla

Jacques Hugues Sylla (22 July 1946 – 26 December 2009) was a Malagasy politician. He was the Prime Minister of Madagascar under President Marc Ravalomanana from February 2002 to January 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Sylla has received more than 22,660 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jacques Sylla is the 15,862nd most popular politician (down from 15,209th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Madagascar (up from 29th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Malagasy Politician.

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Among politicians, Jacques Sylla ranks 15,862 out of 19,576. Before him are Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Ted Kaufman, Tom Vilsack, Volen Siderov, Jennifer Granholm, and Hamilto

Who was Jacques Sylla?

Jacques HuguesSylla was a Malagasy politician. He was the PrimeMinister of MadagascarunderPresident Marc Ravalomanana from February 2002 untilJanuary 2007. He subsequentlyserved as the President of the NationalAssembly of Madagascar from 2007 until 2009.

Sylla was born on the island of Sainte-Marie, Analanjirofo, off the east coast of Madagascar. He is the son of Albert Sylla, who served as Foreign Minister under Madagascar's first president, Philibert Tsiranana, until being killed in a plane crash in July 1967. He served as Foreign Minister himself from 1993 to 1996, under President Albert Zafy. He was an opponent of President Didier Ratsiraka and was one of the lawyers advising Marc Ravalomanana when he was elected Mayor of Antananarivo in 1999. Sylla was also a founder of the Toamasina section of the National Committee for the Observation of Elections.

Sylla backedRavalomanana in the crisis that followed the December 2001 presidentialelection and argued Ravalomanana's case before the High Constitutional Court. On February 26, 2002, in the midst of the

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