Mouvement pour la Démocratie et le Progrès (Comoros)
Mouvement pour la Démocratie et le Progrès (MDP), also Mouvement Démocratique Populaire , was a political party in the island state of Comoros .
history
The party originated in Moroni and participated in the constitutional amendment that was passed in the 1992 referendum. Later in the year, however, they challenged the parliamentary elections because, although the party had won the highest share of the vote of 10.4%, it only received three seats in the Union Assembly , while the xxx received seven seats.
In the early parliamentary elections in 1993, the party only lost two seats. In 1994 the MDP joined forces with other opposition parties to form "xxx" (FRN), an alliance against President Said Mohamed Djohar .
The MDP named Abbas Djoussouf as a candidate for the 1996 presidential election. Djoussouf came second in the first ballot. In the runoff election, however, he was beaten by the UDD candidate Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim (64% to 36%). The MDP then boycotted the parliamentary elections in the same year. Djoussouf was appointed Prime Minister in November 1998. After the 1999 coup, the MDP left the FRN alliance, as some member parties had supported the coup.
Djoussouf was again a candidate for the 2002 presidential election, where he came in ninth place. Before the 2004 general election, the MDP joined the Camp des Îles Autonomes . Allianz won 12 of 18 direct mandates and all 15 indirectly elected seats.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lansford: Political Handbook of the World 2015. CQ Press 2015.
- ^ Elections in the Comoros African Elections Database