Mamadou Seck

Mamadou Seck is a Senegalese politician who was President of the National Assembly of Senegal from 2008 to 2012. He was briefly Minister of Finance and Economy in 2001, and he was Minister of Infrastructure, Equipment and Transport from 2002 to 2006. He has also served as Mayor of Mbao.

Political career Seck was Director-General of the Handling and Shipping Company (Société de manutention et de transit, Somicoa) in the 1980s. In connection with a case regarding the diversion of proceeds from the sale of food aid, Seck was given a two-year suspended sentence in 1988. Seck denied wrongdoing.

In the government of Prime Minister Mame Madior Boye, appointed on 12 May 2001, Seck was included as Minister of Finance and Economy. However, his appointment caused attention to be focused on his conviction in the late 1980s, He held that post until 1 February 2006, He then became the President of the National Assembly's Finance, General Economy, Planning, and Cooperation Committee. There were 130 votes in favor of Seck and three against him.