Gilbert Noël Ouédraogo

Gilbert Noël Ouédraogo (born 25 December 1968) is a Burkinabé politician who served as President of the Alliance for Democracy and Federation–African Democratic Rally (ADF-RDA), a political party in Burkina Faso, from 2003 until its dissolution in 2026. He served in the government of Burkina Faso as Minister of Social Action and National Solidarity from 2000 to 2002 and as Minister of Transport from 2006 to 2013. He was the Fourth Vice-President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso from 2013 to 2014.

Life and career Ouédraogo, whose father was Gérard Kango Ouedraogo, In the May 2002 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly as an ADF-RDA candidate in Nord Region; but was elected as the Third Vice-President of the National Assembly.

Ouédraogo was elected as President of the ADF-RDA at the party's 28–29 June 2003 extraordinary congress, and as the head of the largest opposition party he received the title of Leader of the Opposition. In March 2004, he was elected by the National Assembly as one of Burkina Faso's members of the Pan-African Parliament. In the Pan-African Parliament, he became General Rapporteur of the ad hoc Judicial Affairs Commission, and in October 2004 he was elected as Vice-President of the West African Regional Group in the Pan-African Parliament. but he remained a member of the government after the election.

In the December 2012 parliamentary election, he was again elected to the National Assembly. Following the election, the ADF-RDA was not included in the government that was formed on 2 January 2013. Later in the same month, he was elected as Fourth Vice-President of the National Assembly. However, he was barred from running by the Constitutional Council on 29 August 2015, along with the leader of the Congress for Democracy and Progress, Eddie Komboïgo, for supporting the removal of term limits. For the same reason, he was also barred from standing as a parliamentary candidate.