Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine | |
Order: | President of the Union for the Republic party |
Term Start: | 2 August 2009 |
Term End: | 29 December 2019 |
Predecessor: | Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz |
Successor: | Sidi Mohamed Ould Taleb Amar |
Order2: | Minister of Defense |
Term Start2: | 28 April 2007[1] |
Term End2: | 6 August 2008 |
President2: | Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi |
Primeminister2: | Zeine Ould Zeidane Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef |
Order3: | Minister of Interior, Posts, and Telecommunications |
Term Start3: | 30 March 2007[2] |
Term End3: | 28 April 2007 |
President3: | Ely Ould Mohamed Vall |
Primeminister3: | Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar |
Birth Place: | Hodh El Gharbi Region, Mauritania, French West Africa |
Party: | Union for the Republic (UPR) |
Residence: | Nouakchott |
Alma Mater: | University of Cairo |
Occupation: | Politician, professor, economist |
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine (born in 1952) is a Mauritanian politician.[3]
Born in the Hodh El Gharbi region, Ould Mohamed Lemine graduated from the University of Cairo with a diploma in economics and has worked as a professor at the University of Nouakchott.
He served as Minister of Defense under Prime Minister's Zeine Ould Zeidane and Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef until the August 2008 coup which overthrew President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and created a new government with Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf as Prime Minister.[4] [5]
Lemine was the President of the Union for the Republic party from 2009 to 2019.[6] [7]