Salifou Fatimata Bazeye | |
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President of the Constitutional Court of Niger | |
In office 2007–2009 | |
Salifou Fatimata Bazèye, also known as Fatoumata Bazèye and Fatoumata Bazaî,[1] is a Nigerien jurist, former magistrate, head of the Supreme Court of Niger and from 2007 to 2009 President of the Constitutional Court of Niger. Her court's rulings on the constitutional revisions planned by then President of Niger Mamadou Tandja, led to her extra-constitutional dismissal and a heightening of the 2009–2010 Nigerien constitutional crisis. Following the 2010 Nigerien coup d'état, she was named head of the transitional Constitutional Court of Niger.