Other heavyweights backing ATT include Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine Commissioner Soumaïla Cissé  and Choguel Kokalla Maïga  Finance Minister and President of the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      Espoir controls no strategic ministries and resents the fact that the Industry Ministry is in the hands of Choguel Maïga of the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     And leading opposition candidate Choguel Maïga of the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau will take full advantage: he is a past master at exploiting Adema strife...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Choguel Maïga leads the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau  the strongest of the opposition parties which have boycotted the electoral process since the fiasco of the April 1997 legislative polls (AC Vol 39 No 1)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     If acquitted  she could have concentrated on reviving the Traorés’ once worldwide network of contacts in favour of the only opposition party that Adema strategists still take seriously: Choguel Maïga’s Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Choguel Maïga  aged 43  leads the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau  directly descended from ex-dictator Moussa Traoré's single party of the 1970s- 1980s...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     After a plain-clothes police officer was lynched at an opposition rally on 9 August  several opposition leaders were arrested  including Almamy Sylla of the Rassemblement pour la Démocratie et le Progrès (RDP)  Choguel Maïga of the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau (MPR) and Mountaga Tall of the Congrès National d'Initiative Démocratique (CNID)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     In the north the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Renouveau (MPR  the revived version of Traoré's single party – the Union Démocratique du Peuple Malien has Choguel Maïga  a high-profile Songhay northern dignitary  as its public figurehead and presidential candidate...