Daouda Marté

Daouda Mamadou Marté is a Nigerien politician. A leading member of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism, he has been the First Vice-president of the National Assembly of Niger since 2011.

Life and career

Born in Diffa in 1959, Marté was a founding member of the PNDS; when the party held its Constitutive General Assembly on 23-24 December 1990, he was designated as its Deputy Treasurer. At the PNDS Fourth Ordinary Congress in September 2004, he was designated as Seventh Deputy Secretary-General. He retained that post at the Fifth Ordinary Congress, held on 18 July 2009.
In the January 2011 parliamentary election, Marté was elected to the National Assembly as a PNDS candidate. When the National Assembly began meeting for its parliamentary term, Marté was elected as First Vice-president of the National Assembly on 20 April 2011.
He was re-elected to the National Assembly in the February 2016 parliamentary election.