Alliance for Democracy and Progress

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Alliance for Democracy and Progress
RDP-Jama'a
Party leader Hamid algabid
Secretary General Sani Abdourahmane
Deputy Chairman Mahamadou Bakabé
founding August 1997
Headquarters Niger
Colours) yellow
Parliament seats 3 of 171

The Alliance for Democracy and Progress ( French : Rassemblement pour la Démocratie et le Progrès-Jama'a , abbreviation: RDP-Jama'a ) is a political party in Niger .

history

The Alliance for Democracy and Progress was established in August 1997 as the successor party to the National Union of Independents for Democratic Renewal (UNIRD), the party of President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , who came to power in a 1996 coup. Hamid Algabid became party chairman, Amadou Boubacar Cissé became party chairman and Abdoul Ramane Seydou became general secretary of the RDP-Jama'a.

Jama'a , the epithet of the party, is a Hausa word of Arabic origin and means "entire population of a city or area". The followers of the military leader Usman dan Fodio (1754-1817) called their community jama'a to underline its extensive scope.

President Maïnassara died in a coup in 1999. In the dispute between Hamid Algabid and Amadou Boubacar Cissé over who should run for the RDP Jama'a in the 1999 presidential elections , a court ruled in favor of Algabids. Cissé then split off from the RDP-Jama'a with a new party, the Union for Democracy and Republic (UDR-Tabbat). In the first round of voting, Hamid Algabid received 10.83 percent of the vote. In the runoff election, the RDP-Jama'a supported Mahamadou Issoufou from the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya), who was defeated by Mamadou Tandja from the National Development Society (MNSD-Nassara). In the 1999 parliamentary elections , the RDP-Jama'a received eight out of 83 seats in the National Assembly. In the presidential elections of 2004 Hamid Algabid was only able to collect 4.89 percent of the votes, but this time his party supported Mamadou Tandja in the runoff election and was thus in the camp of the winner. The 2004 general election brought the RDP-Jama'a six out of 113 seats in the National Assembly. Abdoul Ramane Seydou was voted out of office as general secretary of the party in 2008. He was followed by Sani Abdourahmane in office. In the parliamentary elections of 2009 , which were boycotted by the main opposition parties in protest against the authoritarian policies of President Tandja, the RDP-Jama'a only improved slightly to seven of 113 seats.

In the presidential elections of 2011 , the party renounced its own candidate. As of the 2011 parliamentary elections , the RDP-Jama'a continued to be represented by seven out of 113 members in the National Assembly. In the same year, the party formed an alliance with 32 other political parties and groups, which agreed on common principles and promised to support the government of President Mahamadou Issoufou in its projects. Mahamadou Bakabé was elected as the new vice chairman in 2012. In the 2016 general election , the RDP-Jama'a won three out of 171 seats in the National Assembly.

Web links

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Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ a b c d Elections in Niger . African Elections Database, published October 30, 2011; Retrieved October 13, 2012.
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  7. ^ RDP-Jama'a: Madame N'Gadé victime d'un complot politique. In: Tamtam Info. November 8, 2012, archived from the original on November 17, 2018 ; Retrieved November 16, 2018 (French).
  8. ^ Niger: Assemblée nationale (National Assembly). Last elections. Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2016, accessed March 13, 2016 .