List of political parties in Mauritania
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This article lists political parties in Mauritania.
After the Independence of the country in 1960, President Moktar Ould Daddah merged his Mauritanian Regroupment Party with other opposition parties to form the Mauritanian People's Party (PPM),[1] which ruled the country as the sole legal party from 1961 to 1978. Following the July 1978 coup led by Mustafa Ould Salek, the party was abolished and banned, and Mauritania's civilian leadership was replaced with military rule[2] until President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya established the Democratic and Social Republican Party (PRDS) in 1992. Opposition political parties were allowed, but had no real chance of gaining power.
After the 2005 coup d'état, a transitional military junta was established, which liberalized the political arena, leading to an open and plural political system for the first time in the country's history. The junta organized a constitutional referendum that established term limits to then organize the 2006 parliamentary election and 2007 presidential election, in which members of the junta weren't allowed to run, to then hand power to the newly elected civilian government of Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.[3]
This government was couped in 2008 by General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. The National Assembly continued to meet even if its powers were restricted, and Aziz won the 2009 presidential election after forming the Union for the Republic (UPR),[4] which became the ruling party and won an absolute majority of seats in the 2013 parliamentary election, even if the "radical opposition", united in the National Front for the Defense of Democracy (FNDD) was boycotting the election. Aziz won re-election in 2014, which were also boycotted by the "radical opposition". The opposition decided to run in the 2018 parliamentary election (with Mauritania then having 105 parties, most of them were disbanded by 2019[5]) and in the 2019 presidential election since Aziz wasn't constitutionally allowed to seek a third term. The UPR, Aziz and their allies in the soon-to-be-formed Coordination of Parties of the Majority endorsed Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, a general that also participated in the 2005 and 2008 coups and was a close figure to Aziz, in the 2019 presidential election, which Ghazouani won with 52% of the vote. He then distanced himself with Aziz, who left the UPR, and oversaw the party's rebranding into the Equity Party (El Insaf).[6]
Parties
[edit]Parties represented in Parliament
[edit]The table below lists the representation of parties in the 10th National Assembly.
Registered extra-parliamentary parties
[edit]- Republican Party for Democracy and Renewal (PRDR)
- Union of the Forces of Progress (UFP)
- Party of Unity and Development (PUD)
- Rally of Democratic Forces (RFD)
- Burst of Youth for the Nation (PSJN)
- El Ravah
- People's Progressive Alliance (APP)
- National Cohesion for Rights and the Construction of Generations (CNDCG/Ribat)
- Party of Construction and Progress (PCP)
- Centre through Action for Progress (CAP)
Unregistered parties
[edit]- Progressive Forces of Change (FPC)
- Khiar El Haq
- Bloc of Serious Change
- Kavana Movement
- Forward Mauritania (En Avant)
Coalitions
[edit]- Coordination of Parties of the Majority
- Hope Mauritania
- Democratic Alternation Coalition (Sawab+)
- Coalition Living Together (CVE or AJD/MR+)
- State of Justice Coalition
See also
[edit]- Politics of Mauritania
- List of political parties by country
- 2023 Mauritanian parliamentary elections
References
[edit]- ^ Pazzanita, Anthony G (1996). Historical Dictionary of Mauritania (Second ed.). Scarecrow Press. p. 220. ISBN 9780810830950.
- ^ Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh: Sozialstrukturen und politische Macht in Mauretanien. In: inamo 61, Frühjahr 2010, S. 4f
- ^ "Elections en Mauritanie : Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi l'emporterait avec 53,5 % des voix". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2007-03-26. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
- ^ "Aziz wins presidential election, opposition dismisses 'charade'". France 24. 2009-07-19. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
- ^ "La Mauritanie dissout 76 partis politiques" [Mauritania dissolves 76 political parties]. Radio France Internationale (in French). 2019-03-07. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
- ^ "L'UPR devient INSAF : Et après? | Le calame". www.lecalame.info. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
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