Democratic and social assembly
| Democratic and Social Assembly CDS-Rahama |
|
|---|---|
| Party leader | Abdou Labo |
| founding | 5th January 1991 |
| Headquarters | Niger |
| newspaper | Rahama Tribune |
| Alignment | Social democracy |
| Parliament seats | 3 of 171 |
The Democratic and Social Assembly ( French : Convention démocratique et sociale-Rahama , abbreviation: CDS-Rahama ) is a political party in Niger .
history
The later political party goes back to the Association Mutuelle pour la Culture et les Arts (AMACA), a Hausa interest group founded in the late 1980s by intellectuals from Zinder and Maradi . The AMACA was headed by Mahamane Ousmane and pursued the goal of breaking the political hegemony of the Zarma and Songhai in Niger. In the course of the political upheaval in the early 1990s, ethnically or regionally oriented political groups were banned. From the AMACA in 1991 under Mahamane Ousmane the social democratic CDS-Rahama emerged as a regular political party. She was a founding member of the nine-party coalition Alliance of Forces of Change , which existed from 1991 to 1996 and formed as an opposition to the sole rule of the National Development Society (MNSD-Nassara). Amadou Cheiffou , the deputy party chairman of the CDS-Rahama, was Prime Minister in the transition phase from 1991 to 1993 until the first multi-party elections in Niger. For a long time Adamou Namata served as general secretary of the party.
In the parliamentary elections of 1993 , the CDS-Rahama entered the National Assembly . She won 22 of 83 seats. The Alliance of Forces for Change received a total of 50 seats, breaking the majority of the MNSD-Nassara. The 1993 presidential elections brought CDS Rahama candidate Mahamane Ousmane to victory, ahead of second-placed MNSD Nassara candidate Mamadou Tandja . The Alliance of Forces of Change formed a coalition government which, however, lost its parliamentary majority in 1994. After the parliamentary elections of 1995 , in which the CDS-Rahama only slightly improved with 24 of 83 seats, President Mahamane Ousmane had to accept an MNSD-Nassara politician as prime minister. This led to a policy of blockade ( cohabitation ), which was put to an end in 1996 by a coup led by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara . Maïnassara won the presidential elections of 1996 , described by observers as manipulated , in which his predecessor Ousmane officially came in second with just under 20 percent of the vote. The parliamentary elections of 1996 were boycotted by the CDS-Rahama as by all major opposition parties.
After Maïnassara's violent death, the 1999 presidential elections took place, with Mahamane Ousmane taking third place and Mamadou Tandja from MNSD-Nassara ahead of Mahamadou Issoufou from PNDS-Tarayya . In the runoff between Tandja and Issoufou, the CDS-Rahama played the kingmaker through its election recommendation, which - as in the presidential elections of 2004 , in which the ranking of the top three candidates was the same - failed for Mamadou Tandja. The 1999 parliamentary elections brought the CDS-Rahama 17 seats out of 83. In January 2004, the Social Democratic Alliance (RSD-Gaskiya) split from the party under the leadership of Amadou Cheiffou, deputy chairman of the CDS-Rahama. In the 2004 parliamentary elections , the CDS-Rahama received 22 and the RSD-Gaskiya 7 out of 113 seats in the National Assembly. The CDS-Rahama was the coalition partner of the MNSD-Nassara in the government under President Mamadou Tandja until 2009, who was overthrown in a coup in 2010 because of his increasingly autocratic style of government.
Mamamane Ousmane had his worst result to date in the 2011 presidential election won by Mahamadou Issoufou (PNDS-Tarayya) with just over eight percent of the vote. In the parliamentary elections of 2011 , the CDS-Rahama fell to three of 113 seats. After several years of dispute over the direction and leadership of the party, Abdou Labo , the previous deputy party chairman, replaced Mahamane Ousmane as party chairman in 2014. Ousmane was expelled from the party the following year. In the 2016 parliamentary elections , the CDS-Rahama won three out of 171 seats in the National Assembly. Abdou Labo entered the running for the party in the 2016 presidential election, finishing seventh out of fifteen candidates.
literature
- Bania Mahamadou Say : CDS-Rahama, Convention démocratique et sociale. Le guide du militant pour le change . Nouvelle Imprimerie du Niger, Niamey 1994.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , p. 356.
- ↑ Jibrin Ibrahim: Transition et successions politiques au Niger . In: Momar-Coumba Diop and Mamadou Diouf (eds.): Les figures du politique en Afrique. Des pouvoirs hérités aux pouvoirs élus . Karthala, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-86537-964-7 , p. 201.
- ↑ Iyyo Moumouni: CDS Rahama: la déroute se précise. In: Niger Diaspora. June 21, 2012, accessed October 27, 2018 (French).
- ↑ a b c Elections in Niger . African Elections Database, published October 30, 2011, accessed October 13, 2012.
- ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , p. 374.
- ↑ cassure be au du parti de Mahamane Ousmane. Amadou Cheiffou crée son propre parti ( Memento of June 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Afrique Express website, accessed October 13, 2012.
- ↑ Portrait: M. Abdou Labo, candidat du CDS RAHAMA. In: Niger Diaspora. February 5, 2016, accessed February 11, 2016 (French).
- ↑ Abdoulaye Boubacar: CDS / RAHAMA: Abdou Labo investi, et Ousmane exclu. In: Tamtam Info. November 26, 2015, accessed February 11, 2016 (French).
- ^ Niger: Assemblée nationale (National Assembly). Last elections. Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2016, accessed March 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Results globaux provisoires. Commission Électorale Nationale Indépendante, February 2016, archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; accessed on March 13, 2016 (French).
