Zalifa Bente Salim is a
Malagasy politician and the Queen of the
Sakalava
The Sakalava are an ethnic group of Madagascar. They are found on the western and northwest region of the island, in a band along the coast. The Sakalava are one of the smaller ethnic groups, constituting about 6.2 percent of the total populatio ...
-Analalava kingdom.
She had been a daughter of the queen
Augustine Soazara and of the governor
Salimo Ben Issa and was born in 1958.
Political career
She was a member of the
National Assembly of Madagascar
The National Assembly ( mg, Antenimieram-Pirenena; french: Assemblée Nationale) is the lower house of the Parliament of Madagascar. The Assembly has 151 members, elected for five-year terms in single-member and two-member constituencies.
The P ...
, she was elected from the
Fanjava Velogno party in the
1998 Malagasy parliamentary elections, reelected in
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Analalava is a coastal town and commune ( mg, kaominina) in north-western Madagascar over the Mozambique Channel. It is approximately 150 kilometres north of Mahajanga and some 430 kilometres north of the capital Antananarivo. It belongs to the ...
.
References
Profile on National Assembly site
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the National Assembly (Madagascar)
Fanjava Velogno politicians
21st-century Malagasy women politicians
21st-century Malagasy politicians
Place of birth missing (living people)
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