Tayyar.
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MR flag Mauritania Head of state

Mohamed Ould Ghazouani

محمد ولد الشيخ الغزواني
Head of state In government Verified

President of Mauritania since 2019; re-elected in 2024. Former chief of the general staff under his predecessor Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.

Country
Mauritania
Party
El Insaf (Equity Party)
Role
Head of state

Inherited position

Until Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.

In Mauritania (via El Insaf (Equity Party))
-10 -10 -5 -5 5 5 10 10 Libertarian · Statist Libertarian · Market Authority · Statist Authority · Market 1 parties 1 parties 1 parties ← Statist Market → Libertarian ↑ ↓ Authority Social ↕ Economic ↔ El Insaf (Equity Party) (MR) · in government · Economic +2.8, Social -6.0 MR El Insaf (Equity Party) National Rally for Reform and Development (Tewassoul) (MR) · Economic -1.0, Social -8.0 MR National Rally for Reform and Development (Tewassoul) Union of Forces of Progress (MR) · Economic -5.5, Social +4.0 MR Union of Forces of Progress
El Insaf (Equity Party)'s spider profile
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press
El Insaf (Equity Party)

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Mohamed Ould Ghazouani [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ghazouani-mr
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mohamed Ould Ghazouani." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ghazouani-mr.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-ghazouani-mr,
  title     = {{Mohamed Ould Ghazouani}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ghazouani-mr},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.