Nigerien Progressive Party

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Parti Progressiste Nigérien
Nigerien Progressive Party
founding May 12, 1946 (until 1974)
re-established April 2, 1992
resolution 1974
Headquarters Niamey
Youth organization Jeunesse Nigérienne du RDA
Alignment African nationalism, pan-Africanism
Parliament seats 0 of 171

The Nigerien Progressive Party ( French Parti Progressiste Nigérien , PPN-RDA ) is a political party in Niger . It was the unity party of the state from 1960 to 1974 . It was re-established in 1992, but has no parliamentary mandate.

history

Under French rule

The Nigerien Progressive Party was founded on May 12, 1946 in what was then the French overseas territory of Niger. The party joined as a Nigerien section of the African Democratic Collection (RDA), whose founding congress took place from October 18 to 21, 1946 in Bamako . The PPN delegation for the founding of the RDA was led by Issoufou Saïdou Djermakoye , who served as the first President of the Central Committee of the PPN. Hamani Diori became party chairman and Djibo Bakary general secretary of the PPN-RDA. In the elections on November 10, 1946, Diori won the seat of the Niger overseas territory in the National Assembly of France . There he worked with the French Communist Party , which seemed most likely to represent African interests.

Jean Toby , the governor of France in Niger, initiated the founding of the Union of Independent Nigerians and Sympathizers (UNIS) in 1948 with the aim of weakening the PPN-RDA. Issoufou Saïdou Djermakoye and other PPN-RDA members switched to the pro-French UNIS. Georges Condat (UNIS) won against Djibo Bakary (PPN-RDA) in the elections for Niger's second member of the National Assembly of France on June 27, 1948 . In June 1950, Daddy Gaoh became party leader of the PPN-RDA. On June 17, 1951, when both Nigerians were elected to the French National Assembly, Hamani Diori also lost his seat to a UNIS representative. In the 1952 elections to the Territorial Assembly in Niger , all fifty seats went to UNIS. The PPN-RDA tried to stop the triumphant advance of UNIS by forming a coordination committee with the UNIS offshoot Nigerien Progressive Union (UPN) from 1953 to 1954.

When the PPN-RDA or its parent party, the RDA, ended its cooperation with the French Communist Party, Djibo Bakary spoke out against it and was therefore excluded from the PPN-RDA. Bakary then founded a new party in 1954, the Nigerien Democratic Union (UDN), which merged in 1956 under his leadership with the Nigerien Action Block (BNA) to form the Sawaba party . In 1956, Boubou Hama became chairman of the PPN-RDA instead of Daddy Gaoh. The UNIS had been severely weakened by internal party crises and Hamani Diori managed to regain his seat in the French National Assembly in the elections on January 2, 1956. The party youth organization Jeunesse Nigérienne du RDA was founded on February 2, 1957. In the elections for the Territorial Assembly in Niger in 1957 , the PPN-RDA came second behind the Sawaba of Djibo Bakary. The Nigerien government formed after the elections included only ministers from Sawaba and none from the PPN-RDA.

The decisive turnaround was the constitutional referendum in Niger in 1958 , in which the Sawaba spoke out in favor of Niger's immediate independence from France and the PPN-RDA against. The referendum ended in favor of a temporary stay with France. The PPN-RDA received support from the ranks of the Sawaba and, for lack of alternatives, was now considered the party that enjoyed the confidence of the French administration. Due to manipulation by the French administration in the elections for the territorial assembly in Niger in 1958 , the Sawaba ultimately lost all seats in the Nigerien parliament that were occupied by the PPN-RDA. The PPN-RDA formed the government of the Autonomous Republic of Niger under Prime Minister Hamani Diori. After street protests by Sawaba against the election result, it was banned in 1959. With the Union des Femmes du Niger , a women's organization affiliated to the PPN-RDA was founded in 1959, chaired by Fatou Djibo .

Unity Party of the First Republic

Hamani Diori (1968)

The PPN-RDA was formed as a unity party and accompanied Niger to independence in 1960. The National Assembly of Niger , which was exclusively made up of PPN-RDA MPs, and which emerged from the Nigerian Territorial Assembly elected in 1958, elected Hamani Diori as its first President in 1960. Well-known party members from the time of the First Republic (1960–1974) who held ministerial offices were Barcourgné Courmo , Mahamane Dan Dobi , Issa Ibrahim , Amadou Issaka , Yansambou Maïga Diamballa , Boukary Sabo and Mouddour Zakara . Abdou Gaoh served as chairman of the youth party for a while .

On April 15, 1974, Seyni Kountché took power through a coup d'état. During his reign, all political parties in Niger were banned.

Since the re-establishment

During the time of democratic change under Kountché's successor Ali Saibou , the PPN-RDA was reorganized. The driving forces behind the start-up were Oumarou Garba Youssoufou and Léopold Kaziendé . From 1990, Harou Kouka was the provisional head of the Politburo. The PPN-RDA was re-established as a registered party on April 2, 1992.

The party's candidate in the 1993 presidential election was Oumarou Garba Youssoufou. He was fifth of seven candidates with 1.99% of the vote. The parliamentary elections of 1993 , the first in the history of the country since the introduction of the multiparty system , failed to achieve great success: The Nigerien Progressive Party only received two of the 83 seats in the National Assembly. In 1995, Youssoufou became party leader of a new small party, the Nigerien Democratic Front (FDN-Mutunci). The party chairmanship of the PPN-RDA was initially taken over by Dan Dicko Dan Koulodo , then Abdoulaye Hamani Diori , the eldest son of the former President Hamani Diori. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 , the party received only one mandate, which was carried out by Abdoulaye Hamani Diori. Diori was elected Vice President of the National Assembly. In an electoral alliance with the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya), Diori and the PPN-RDA succeeded in the parliamentary elections of 2004 for the last time in the National Assembly.

The party has not been represented in parliament since 2009. Abdoulaye Hamani Diori died in 2011.

literature

  • Claude Fluchard: Le PPN-RDA et la décolonisation du Niger, 1946–1960 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7384-3100-3 .

Web links

Commons : Nigerien Progressive Party  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , p. 262.
  2. ^ André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 299-300.
  3. ↑ a b Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 84-85.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, pp. 269-272.
  5. ^ Mamoudou Djibo: Les transformations politiques au Niger à la veille de l'indépendance . L'Harmattan, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7384-9505-2 , p. 45.
  6. ^ A b André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 306 .
  7. ↑ Mamoudou Djibo: Les enjeux politiques dans la colonie du Niger (1944 to 1960) . In: Autrepart , No. 27/2003 ( online version ; PDF; 507 kB), pp. 46–47.
  8. ↑ Elizabeth Schmidt: Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958 . Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 2007, ISBN 978-0-8214-1763-8 , pp. 136-137.
  9. ^ François Martin: Le Niger du Président Diori. Chronology 1960–1974 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7384-0952-0 , pp. 22 .
  10. ^ François Martin: Le Niger du Président Diori. Chronology 1960–1974 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7384-0952-0 , pp. 27 .
  11. ↑ CV Diori Hamani  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Nigerien Presidential Chancellery website, accessed October 13, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.presidence.ne  
  12. ^ A b Parti Progressiste Nigérien . In: Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 .
  13. ^ André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 282-284.
  14. ^ André Salifou: Le Niger . L'Harmattan, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-7475-2639-9 , p. 350.
  15. ^ A b Elections in Niger . African Elections Database, published October 30, 2011, accessed October 13, 2012.
  16. ↑ Niger: Parliamentary elections Assemblée nationale, 1993 . Inter-Parliamentary Union website , accessed October 13, 2012.
  17. ↑ a b Obsèques de feu Abdoulaye Diori Hamani: il était de tous les combats pour l'instauration d'un Etat de droit dans notre pays. In: Niger Diaspora. April 27, 2011, accessed January 4, 2018 (French).