Sacca Lafia

Sacca Lafia (born October 21, 1944[1]) is a Beninese politician, the President of the Union for Democracy and National Solidarity (UDS),[2] and a former First Vice-President of the National Assembly of Benin.[3]

A veterinarian by training,[1] Lafia was first elected to the National Assembly in the March 1999 parliamentary election,[1][4] on which occasion he was one of four Star Alliance (Alliance Etoile) candidates to be elected.[4] He was the UDS candidate in the March 2001 presidential election, receiving 1.20% of the vote and fifth place,[5] and in the March 2003 parliamentary election he was one of three Star Alliance candidates elected to the National Assembly.[6] In the March 2007 parliamentary election, Lafia was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of the Cauris Forces for an Emerging Benin.[7]

In the government of President Yayi Boni named on June 17, 2007, Lafia was appointed as Minister of Mines, Energy, and Water.[8][9]

In the April 2015 parliamentary election, he was re-elected to the National Assembly as an Sun Alliance candidate in the 8th constituency.[10]

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