What is Mahamadou Issoufou?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Mahamadou Issoufou |image = Mahamadou Issoufou 2014.jpg |office = [[List of heads of state of Niger|President of Niger]] |primeminister = [[Brigi Rafini]] |term_start = 7 April 2011 |term_end = 2 April 2021 |predecessor = [[Salou Djibo]] {{small|(Chairperson of the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy)}} |successor = [[Mohamed Bazoum]] |office1 = [[List of heads of government of Niger|Prime Minister of Niger]] |president1 = [[Mahamane Ousmane]] |term_start1 = 17 April 1993 |term_end1 = 28 September 1994 |predecessor1 = [[Amadou Cheiffou]] |successor1 = [[Souley Abdoulaye]] |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1952|1|1}} |birth_place = [[Tahoua Department|Dandaji]], [[French West Africa]] {{small|(now [[Niger]])}} |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism]] |spouse = [[Aïssata Issoufou Mahamadou]]<br />[[Lalla Malika Issoufou]] }} '''Mahamadou Issoufou''' (born 1 January 1952<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=EeqbAAAAQBAJ&dq=Mahamadou+Issoufou+Jan.+1%2C+1952&pg=PA83 Profile of Mahamadou Issoufou]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.presidence.ne/biographie-du-president-de-la-republique|title=Biographie du Président de la République|website=Présidence de la République du Niger|access-date=2016-04-03|archive-date=2016-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413061307/http://www.presidence.ne/biographie-du-president-de-la-republique|url-status=dead}}</ref>) is a [[Niger]]ien [[politician]] who was the [[President of Niger]] from 2011 until 2021. Issoufou was the [[Heads of Government of Niger|Prime Minister of Niger]] from 1993 to 1994, [[President of the National Assembly of Niger|President of the National Assembly]] from February 1995 to 27 January 1996, and he has been a candidate in each presidential election since 1993. He led the [[Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism]] (PNDS-Tarayya), a social democratic party, from it