Mélégué Maurice Traoré (born 31 December 1951[1]) is a Burkinabé politician who was Minister of Secondary and Higher Education in the government of Burkina Faso from 1992 to 1997 and President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso from 1997 to 2002.
He served as Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as Chargé d'affaires at the Burkinabé Embassy to the United States, and as Ambassador to Russia before being appointed as Minister of Secondary and Higher Education and Scientific Research in 1992.
[1] Traoré was re-elected to the National Assembly in the May 2002 parliamentary election as a candidate of the ruling Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP) in Cascades Region,[3] but Roch Marc Christian Kaboré was elected to succeed him as President of the National Assembly on 6 June 2002.
According to Traoré, he stayed busy despite a reduced volume of work, and he stood as a candidate again in the 2007 parliamentary election despite widespread speculation that he would not.
He also denied rumors that his relationship with President Blaise Compaoré had suffered, saying that he met with Compaoré less frequently only because he held less responsibility as an ordinary deputy than he did as President of the National Assembly.