Abdoulatifou Aly

Abdoulatifou Aly (12 April 1960 – 26 June 2020) was a Malagascar-born French Mahoran politician, a long-term representative of the island of Mayotte at the National Assembly of France, and a member of the executive bureau of the Democratic Movement.

Juridical career

Abdoulatifou Aly received both his primary and middle school education in Mayotte, before graduating high school in Lycée Leconte-de-Lisle in Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion. He then continued to study the law at the Robert Schumann University in Strasbourg, where he specialised in the laws of territorial collectivities.

He was then made the territorial attaché of Moselle, in charge of social actions. In 1988, he returned to Mayotte, where he launched a political attack before becoming the chief officer of finance, then the assistant general secretary in 1990 and general secretary in 1992. He was a lawyer at the Bar of Mamoudzou.

Political career

While he was affiliated with the Mahoré People's Movement (French: Mouvement populaire mahorais), he was assistant mayor of Pamandzi from 1989 to 1995. He then became parliamentary assistant and substitute to Senator Marcel Henry, a job that he had until 2004.

Like the three others elected from the Democratic Movement, he did not vote on the trust of the François Fillon government and he abstained. He joined the office of the Union for French Democracy, (French: Union pour la Démocratie Française, UDF) a constituent of the Democratic Movement, during the congress of the party on 30 November 2007 in Villepinte.

In July 2010, Abdoulatifou Aly expressed that he was in favour of a law scheme about burqas.

He suffered a sudden great loss during the legislative elections on 10 June 2012, as he did not gain more than 0.82% of the poll with 127 votes, a new low for an outgoing MP. On 24 May 2013 the constitutional council rejected his campaign accounts and he was declared ineligible for one year.