Macky Sall

Trained as a geologist, Sall advised President Abdoulaye Wade on energy and mines, headed the state petroleum company PETROSEN, and became minister of mines, energy and hydraulics in 2001.{cite:source/wikipedia-macky-sall-en} He was mayor of Fatick from 2002 to 2008, prime minister from 2004 to 2007, and then president of the National Assembly from 2007. The break with Wade came after Sall summoned the president's son Karim Wade to a hearing over the construction sites for a Dakar summit; in November 2008 the Assembly removed Sall from its presidency, he resigned from the PDS, and he founded his own party, the Alliance for the Republic.{cite:source/wikipedia-macky-sall-en}

In the 2012 election Sall placed second in the first round, gathered the backing of the other opposition candidates, and defeated Wade in the second round on 25 March 2012.{cite:source/wikipedia-macky-sall-en} He was re-elected in 2019. In July 2023, after months of speculation, he announced that he would not seek a third term, and he left office at the end of his second term in April 2024.{cite:source/wikipedia-macky-sall-en}{cite:source/wikipedia-macky-sall-fr}

On faith, one text names a school for him personally: the English article's religion section states that Sall is a Muslim who follows the Maliki school, citing ACI Africa's report of his audience with Pope Francis, and records his support for a tolerant Islam.{cite:source/wikipedia-macky-sall-en} Everything else is structure echoing that one claim: the French infobox gives "Sunni Maliki Islam", Wikidata's single religion value is Sunni Islam, and the three article versions file him among Senegalese Muslims; the French text quotes his own 2016 statement that homosexuality is contrary to the Muslim religion, which attests his Muslim identity but names no school.{cite:source/wikipedia-macky-sall-fr}{cite:source/wikidata-macky-sall} One attestation is not two under the museum's rule, so his faith is entered as unknown, with the Maliki reading preserved in the record.

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