Geological engineer by training, Senegalese statesman, born on 11 December 1961 in Fatick, where he was mayor from 2009 to 2012, Macky Sall joined the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) in 1980. Firstly General Manager of the of Senegal’s oil companies (PETROSEN) from 2000 to 2001, then appointed several times a minister before becoming Speaker of the National Assembly. After his breaking with the PDS, he founded the Alliance for the Republic (APR) in 2008 and won the 2012 presidential election. On 24 February 2019, the President Macky Sall was re-elected in the first round.