Nigerien Progressive Union

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Nigerien Progressive Union
UPN
Party leader Georges Condat
founding March 15, 1953
resolution November 1955
Headquarters Niger
Youth organization Jeunesse de l'Union Progressiste

The Nigerien Progressive Union ( French : Union Progressiste Nigérienne , abbreviation: UPN ) was a political party in the French overseas territory of Niger .

history

The Nigerien Progressive Union was founded on March 15, 1953 as a split from the Union of Independent Nigerians and Sympathizers (UNIS). By then, with the welfare and support of the French administration, UNIS had developed into the most important political force in Niger. Since 1951, it has provided Georges Condat and Ikhia Zodi, Niger's two MPs in the French National Assembly, and since the elections to the Territorial Assembly in 1952, all members of the Nigerien parliament. Georges Condat did not agree that UNIS refused to cooperate with the Nigerien Progressive Party (PPN-RDA). He therefore founded his own party, the UPN, which was represented by himself in the French National Assembly. The UPN supported the PPN-RDA candidate Boubou Hama in the election to the parliament of the Union française on October 10, 1953. Boubou Hama lost the election. The UPN and the PPN-RDA then founded a coordinating committee on November 8, 1953. The UPN youth organization Jeunesse de l'Union Progressiste was officially registered on October 28, 1954 with Condat as honorary chairman. Towards the end of 1954, the cooperation between UPN and PPN-RDA no longer worked. In November 1955, the UPN merged with a group of other former UNIS party members, including Adamou Mayaki and Issoufou Saïdou Djermakoye , to form a new party: the Nigerien Action Bloc (BNA).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 271.
  2. ^ A b Mamoudou Djibo: Les enjeux politiques dans la colonie du Niger (1944–1960) . In: Autrepart , No. 27/2003 ( online version ; PDF; 507 kB), pp. 46–47.
  3. ^ François Martin: Le Niger du Président Diori. Chronology 1960–1974 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7384-0952-0 , pp. 20 .