replaced on 29 June 2009. When the CDS decided to boycott the October 2009 parliamentary election, along with the other major opposition parties, Lamine ignored the boycott and stood as an independent candidate in N'Gourti, which was considered his electoral stronghold. He won a seat in the National Assembly, and when the National Assembly began meeting for the new parliamentary term in November 2009, he joined the nine-member Independent Parliamentary Group, which was composed of independents and deputies from small parties. He was also chosen as President of the General and Institutional Affairs Commission, one of the National Assembly's seven standing committees, at that time. In February 2010, the military seized power in a coup d'état, dissolving the National Assembly after it had been sitting for only three months. Lamine thus lost his parliamentary seat, but he was appointed as Special Adviser to the President of the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, Salou Djibo, in March 2010; he was also given the rank of minister. Following the January 2011 parliamentary election, Issa was accused by local military governors in N'Gourti and Diffa Region of attempting to fix the elections in N'Gourti by orchestrating the kidnap of election officials, and organizing groups of his CDS-Rahama supporters and ex-combatants from his 1990s rebel group to attack areas presumed loyal to rivals. References Ministers of council of Niger Members of the National Assembly (Niger) Democratic and Social Convention politicians Living people People from Diffa Region Year of birth missing (living people)