Roukayatou Abdou Issaka
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Roukayatou Abdou Issaka was a
Niger ) , official_languages = , languages_type = National languagesNational Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...
in 1989.


Biography

A member of the
National Movement for the Development of Society The National Movement for the Development of Society (french: Mouvement National pour la Société du Développement, MNSD-Nassara) is a political party in Niger. Founded under the military government of the 1974–1990 period, it was the ruling ...
(MNSD), Issaka was nominated as a candidate for the National Assembly in Mirriah in the
1989 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1989. Africa * 1989 Beninese parliamentary election * 1989 Botswana general election * 1989 Equatorial Guinean presidential election * 1989 People's Republic of the Congo parliamentary election * ...
. With the MNSD being the sole legal party, she was elected unopposed, becoming one of the first group of five women elected to the National Assembly.Alice J. Kang (2015
''Bargaining for Women's Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy''
pp117–118
The National Assembly was dissolved in 1991 and she was not re-elected in the 1993 elections.


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