Soungalo Apollinaire Ouattara (born 31 December 1956[1]) is a Burkinabé politician who was President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso from 2012 to 2014.
He became a civil administrator in 1983[1] and from 1983 to 1984 he was Prefect-Mayor of Réo, as well as Acting High Commissioner of Sanguié Province.
[2] Ouattara served as Secretary-General of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Security from 1988 to 1994[1][2] and as Permanent Secretary of the National Decentralization Commission from 1994 to 1995.
[1] A book written by Ouattara, Local Governance and Freedoms: For an African Renaissance (Gouvernance et libertés locales – Pour une renaissance de l’Afrique), was published by Karthala Editions in November 2007.
[6] During mass protests against plans to change the constitution to allow President Blaise Compaoré to run for another term, angry protesters attacked the National Assembly on 30 October 2014 and set it on fire, preventing a planned vote on the change.