Dan Ialá

Dan Iala N’Canha Baranção, commonly known as Dan Ialá, is a Bissau-Guinean politician from the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC).[1][2] She was first elected to the National Assembly in the 2014 general election and appointed Second Secretary of the Parliamentary Bureau.[3][4] In 2015, she served as President of the Organising Committees of the 67th Executive Committee session of the African Parliamentary Union and the 38th Conference of Presidents of African National Parliamentary Assemblies.[4] In February 2018, Ialá was elected by the Central Committee members to the Standing Committee of the PAIGC.[5] During the 2019 presidential election, she served as deputy director for the campaign of Domingos Simões Pereira, the PAIGC's candidate.[6] She was re-elected to the National Assembly in 2019 representing the Catió and Komo sectors of the Tombali Region.[7] Following the 2019 election, she was appointed as First Secretary of the Parliamentary Bureau.[8] In February 2020, after the disputed 2019 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, Ialá unsuccessfully attempted to inaugurate Cipriano Cassamá as president.[9]