Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Ibrahima Moctar Sarr will contest this year’s presidential election in Mauritania on the ticket of the Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Reconciliation (AJD/MR), a nationalist black African movement.
He was chosen by acclamation at the party’s congress held on Friday.
”The congress has approved the choice of the board. We’ll participate in the presidential election to address the country’s key national issues which will determine the future of Mauritania,” said Mr Sarr.
The first round of the election is scheduled for Saturday, June 21, 2014.
For AJD/MR, the settlement of the issue of community co-habitation, which refers “to the rejection” of black Africans is an “urgent problem” in Mauritania.
Elected Member of Parliament in November 2013, he was twice defeated in the presidential elections of 2007 and 2009.
Sarr was also imprisoned in Oualata prison where several black executives died, being victims of bad conditions, between 1987 and 1989, under the regime of Maaouya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya.
