Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine

Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine
President of the Union for the Republic party
In office
2 August 2009  29 December 2019
Preceded byMohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Succeeded bySidi Mohamed Ould Taleb Amar
Minister of Defense
In office
28 April 2007  6 August 2008
PresidentSidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
Prime MinisterZeine Ould Zeidane
Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef
Minister of Interior, Posts, and Telecommunications
In office
30 March 2007  28 April 2007
PresidentEly Ould Mohamed Vall
Prime MinisterSidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar
Personal details
Born1952 (age 7273)
Hodh El Gharbi Region, Mauritania, French West Africa
Political partyUnion for the Republic (UPR)
ResidenceNouakchott
Alma materUniversity of Cairo
OccupationPolitician, professor, economist

Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine (born in 1952) is a Mauritanian politician.

Born in the Hodh El Gharbi region, Ould Mohamed Lemine graduated from the University of Cairo with a diploma in economics and has worked as a professor at the University of Nouakchott.

He served as Minister of Defense under Prime Minister's Zeine Ould Zeidane and Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef until the August 2008 coup which overthrew President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and created a new government with Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf as Prime Minister.

Lemine was the President of the Union for the Republic party from 2009 to 2019.