List of heads of state of Mauritania

President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
Seal of Mauritania
Incumbent Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz since 5 August 2009
Residence	Presidential Palace, Nouakchott
Term length	5 years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Moktar Ould Daddah
Formation	20 August 1961

The following is a list of heads of state of Mauritania, since the country gained independence from France in 1960.

List of Heads of State of Mauritania

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Portrait	Incumbent	Affiliation	Notes
Islamic Republic of Mauritania	Independence from France
(République Islamique de Mauritanie)
28 November 1960 to 20 August 1961		Moktar Ould Daddah, acting Head of State	PRM/PPM
20 August 1961 to 10 July 1978		Moktar Ould Daddah, President		Deposed in a coup d'état
10 July 1978 to 20 March 1979		Mustafa Ould Salek, Chairman of the Military Committee for National Recovery	Mil
20 March 1979 to 6 April 1979		Mustafa Ould Salek, Head of State and Chairman of the Military Committee for National Recovery
6 April 1979 to 3 June 1979		Mustafa Ould Salek, Head of State and Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation		Reduced to a figurehead after a coup d'état; Resigned
3 June 1979 to 4 January 1980		Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, Head of State and Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation	Mil	Deposed in a coup d'état
4 January 1980 to 12 December 1984		Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, Head of State and Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation	Mil	Deposed in a coup d'état
12 December 1984 to 18 April 1992		Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, Head of State and Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation	Mil
18 April 1992 to 3 August 2005		Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, President	PRDS	Deposed in a coup d'état
3 August 2005 to 19 April 2007		Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Chairman of the Military Council for Justice and Democracy	Mil	Step down after the 2007 presidential election
19 April 2007 to 6 August 2008		Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, President	n-p	Deposed in a coup d'état
6 August 2008 to 15 April 2009		Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of the High Council of State	Mil	1st Term; Resigned in order to stand as a candidate in the 2009 presidential election
15 April 2009 to 5 August 2009		Ba Mamadou Mbaré, Acting President	n-p	President of the Senate. The first black leader of Mauritania
5 August 2009 to Present		Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President	UPR	2nd Term

Affiliations

PPM	Partie des Personnes de Mauritanian      (Mauritanian People's Party)   to 1961 PRM - authoritarian
PRDS	Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social      (Social and Democratic Republican Party)   authoritarian
PRM	Parti de Rassemblement Mauritian      (Mauritanian Regroupment Party)   1958-1961 PPM
UPM	Union Progressive Mauritanian      (Mauritanian Progressive Union)   from 1958 PRM
ADIL	National Pact for Democracy and Development
UPR	Union for the Republic
Mil	Military
n-p	non-partisan

Latest election

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz	Union for the Republic	577,995	81.89
Biram Dah Abeid	Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement	61,218	8.67
Boïdiel Ould Houmeit	El Wiam	31,773	4.50
Ibrahima Moctar Sarr	Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal	31,368	4.44
Laila Maryam Mint Moulaye Idriss	Independent	3,434	0.49
Invalid/blank votes		44,077	–
Total		749,865	100
Registered voters/turnout		1,328,168	56.46
Source: CENI

See also

• Mauritania
  • Heads of government of Mauritania
  • Colonial heads of Mauritania
• Lists of office-holders

External links

• World Statesmen - Mauritania