Party for National Unification and Democracy

Party for National Unification and Democracy PUND-Salama
Party leader	Akoli Daouel
founding	June 19, 1992
Headquarters	Niamey , Niger
Parliament seats	0 of 171

The Party for National Unification and Democracy ( French : Parti pour l'Union National et la Démocratie-Salama , abbreviation: PUND-Salama ) is a political party in Niger .

history

The party for national unification and democracy was founded on June 19, 1992 by Akoli Daouel , who founded the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS-Amana) in December 1990 . Both parties have their main power among the Tuareg in the north of the country. The PUND-Salama was a member of the nine-party coalition Alliance of Forces of Change, which existed until 1996 and was formed as an opposition to the sole rule of the National Development Society (MNSD-Nassara). In the parliamentary elections of 1993 , from which the alliance emerged victorious, the PUND-Salama, like two other small parties in the coalition, failed to make it into the national assembly . In the subsequent parliamentary elections in 1995 , the party won three out of 83 seats. She supported President Mahamane Ousmane from the Democratic and Social Assembly party (CDS-Rahama), whose camp, however, could not achieve a parliamentary majority. In 1996 some party members from Tillabéri split off from the PUND-Salama with a small party, the Party for Democratic Renewal (PRD-Mahiba). Since the coup d'état by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara and the parliamentary elections of 1996 , the PUND-Salama is no longer represented in the National Assembly. The party was initially one of Baré Maïnassara's supporters, but on February 2, 1997, it joined an alliance with the Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ANDP-Zaman Lahiya) and the newly founded Nigerien Self-Government Party (PNA-Al'ouma) Opposition to Baré Maïnassara together. In the presidential elections of 2011 , the PUND-Salama supported the MNSD-Nassara candidate Seini Oumarou , who, however, had to admit defeat to Mahamadou Issoufou of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Daouel, Akoli . In: Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 169-170.
2. ^ Emmanuel Grégoire: Cohabitation au Niger . In: Afrique contemporaine . No. 175/1995 ( online version ; PDF; 2.1 MB), p. 46.
3. ↑ 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.
4. ^ Niger: Parliamentary elections Assemblée nationale, 1995 . Inter-Parliamentary Union website , accessed October 25, 2012.
5. ^ Emmanuel Grégoire: Cohabitation au Niger . In: Afrique contemporaine . No. 175/1995 ( online version ; PDF; 2.1 MB), p. 47.
6. ↑ Eric Komlavi Hahonou: Les partis politiques dans les arènes locales: L'exemple de Gorouol et Bankilaré . In: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Mahamam Tidjani Alou (eds.): Les pouvoirs locaux au Niger. Tome 1: À la veille de la decentralization . Karthala, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-8111-0306-4 , p. 81.
7. ^ André Salifou: Niger. Evolution du processus démocratique nigérien de 1991 à 1999 ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 218 kB), p. 159. Website of the Francophonie , accessed on October 25, 2012. 
8. ↑ Daouda Hassane: Déclaration de l'Alliance pour la Réconciliation Nationale (ARN): une vingtaine de partis politiques accordent leur soutien au candidat du MNSD Nassara, M. Seini Oumarou ( Memento of December 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Le Sahel website, published February 22, 2011, accessed October 25, 2012.