Moussa Timbiné

Timbiné was born on 14 July 1974 in Bandiagara.[1] His father is of Dogon background and his mother of Songhai descent.[1] Timbiné obtained a bachelor in exact sciences at the Lycée Hamadoun Dicko de Sévaré. He attended business schools in Sousse, Tunisia and Toulon, France.[1] Lastly, he studied maths and physics at the University of Bamako. Timbiné subsequently worked as a teacher in the Daoudabougou neighborhood of Bamako. He later worked in financial and administrative positions for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit.[2]

Timbiné was one of the founding members of Rally for Mali (RPM).[1] In 2004 he became its youth president, a position which he has held since.[3] The same year he became a member of the municipal council of Bamako for Commune V.[2] Timbiné has also served as deputy mayor of Commune V.[3]

In the 2013 Malian parliamentary election he was elected to the National Assembly of Mali for Commune V.[4] He served as First Vice President of the National Assembly since 2017.[1][3] In the 2020 Malian parliamentary election Timbiné seemed to not win his Bamako seat (Commune V) after the second round of votes was counted. However, this result was overturned by the Constitutional Court of Mali, with Timbiné thus winning the seat.[5][6]

On 11 May 2020 he was elected President of the National Assembly for a five-year term. He won the election with 134 votes, over 8 votes for his opponent, former Prime Minister Moussa Mara.[3] Fellow RPM assembly-member Mamadou Diarrassouba had also been designated candidate for the Presidency by the RPM, but he withdrew his candidancy on the day of the vote.[6] Timbiné is considered to be a close ally of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.[6]

Timbiné is married and has four children.[2]