Salif Diallo

Salif Diallo
President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso
In office 30 December 2015 – 19 August 2017
Preceded by	Chérif Sy
Succeeded by	Alassane Bala Sakandé
Personal details
Born	9 May 1957
Died	19 August 2017 (age 60)
Political party	MPP

Salif Diallo (9 May 1957 – 19 August 2017) was a Burkinabé politician who was President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso from 2015 to 2017. He was a key associate of President Blaise Compaoré from the 1980s to the 2000s, serving in various posts during that period, including as Director of the Cabinet of the President from 1987 to 1989, Minister of Environment and Water from 1995 to 1999, and Minister of Agriculture from 2000 to 2008. He was appointed as Burkina Faso's Ambassador to Austria later in 2008. He also served as Vice-President of the Congress for Democracy and Progress, the ruling party.^[1]

Diallo resigned from the CDP in January 2014 and participated in the founding of an opposition party, the People's Movement for Progress (MPP), becoming its First Vice-President. After the MPP's victory in the November 2015 general election, he was elected as President of the National Assembly on 30 December 2015.