Azali Assoumani

President of Comoros

1 January 1959 Mitsoudjé, Comoros

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Incumbent

President of Comoros This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "Azali Assoumani" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2017 ) This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2017) Click for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at ]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|fr|Azali Assoumani}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. Azali Assoumani (Arabic: غزالي عثماني ‎, born January 1, 1959) is a Comorian politician who is the current President of Comoros, In office since 2016. Previously he was President from 1999 to 2002 and again from 2002 to 2006. He became leader of Comoros on 30 April 1999 after leading a coup to depose acting president Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, who he saw as pandering to the independence movement on Anjouan. He won multi-party elections in 2002, prior to which he was constitutionally required to temporarily step down in order to run as a candidate. On 15 May 2016 he was declared by the Constitutional Court to have won the 2016 presidential election to succeed President Ikililou Dhoinine. Life and career This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (June 2020 ) Azali was born in 1959 at Mitsoudjé in south-western Grande Comore. Until he overthrew the civilian government in 1999, he pursued a military career for two decades. Between 1977 and 1980 he trained at the Royal Military Academy in Morocco and qualified as a parachutist. On his return to Comoros, he joined the FAC. After the death of Abdullah and the departure of the mercenaries in 1989−1990, Major Azali became a senior officer in the new Comorian Defense Force (FCD). In 1996 he undertook further training at a French military academy and was promoted to colonel and chief of staff of the new National Army of Development (NAD). Until 2018 the presidency rotated every five years between the country's three islands, Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli. The 2018 constitutional referendum ended this system and allowed Azali to stand in the 2019 Comorian presidential election, which he won in the first round of voting receiving 60.7% of the votes cast. He resumed his duties in April 2019.