Abdoulaye Wadees a politician, senegalese, was the third president of Senegal. Is the leader of the Democratic Party Senegalese, a liberal party member of the Liberal International. Before reaching the government, led the opposition for decades, and in some occasions, he was exiled and imprisoned at Besançon for their political activities. He studied at the Lycée Condorcet.
Wade ran for president for the first time in February 1978 against the first president of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor, getting the 17.38 per cent of the votes, but not enough to reach Senghor. As a result, he ran as president in the elections of 1983, 1988, and 1993, remaining always in the second place, after the successor of Senghor, Abdou Diouf.