After serving as the Third Secretary of the Democratic League in charge of the press and external relations, he was elected as the party's Secretary-General at its First Congress on April 6–7, 1984, succeeding Babacar Sané.[4] He was the LD/MPT's candidate in the February 1993 presidential election, taking fourth place with 2.41% of the vote.[5] In the February 1993 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly;[4] he then served as Minister for the Environment and the Protection of Nature from 1993 to 1998 under President Abdou Diouf.[3][4]