Social Democratic Alliance

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RSD-Gaskiya Social Democratic Alliance
Party leader Amadou Cheiffou
founding January 15, 2004
Headquarters Niger
Alignment Social democracy
Colours) orange and white
Parliament seats 4 of 171

The Social Democratic Alliance ( French : Rassemblement Social Démocrate-Gaskiya , abbreviation: RSD-Gaskiya ) is a political party in Niger .

history

The Social Democratic Alliance was formed on January 15, 2004 under the leadership of Amadou Cheiffou as a split from the Democratic and Social Assembly party (CDS-Rahama). Cheiffou had previously been vice chairman of the CDS-Rahama, led by Mahamane Ousmane . The newly founded party was given particularly good opportunities in the Maradi region , where Cheiffou comes from. The nickname Gaskiya comes from the Hausa language and means "truth".

Amadou Cheiffou ran as a candidate for the RSD-Gaskiya in the 2004 presidential election , finishing fourth behind his former party colleague Mahamane Ousmane. In the subsequent parliamentary elections in 2004 , the RSD-Gaskiya received seven out of 113 seats in the National Assembly . After President Mamadou Tandja of the National Development Society (MNSD-Nassara) party had a third term of office confirmed in the controversial constitutional referendum in 2009 , the 2009 parliamentary elections were boycotted by the main opposition parties. The RSD-Gaskiya became the second largest party behind the presidential party MNSD-Nassara, with 15 out of 113 seats in the National Assembly. In 2010, Tandja was overthrown in a coup. Amadou Cheiffou received only around four percent of the vote in the presidential elections of 2011 that were consequently scheduled . In the parliamentary elections of 2011 , the RSD-Gaskiya failed to get back into the National Assembly. In the same year, the party joined together with 32 other political parties and groups in an alliance that agreed on common principles and agreed to join the government of the newly elected President Mahamadou Issoufou of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya) to support their project. In the 2016 general election , the RSD-Gaskiya won four out of 171 seats in the National Assembly. In the 2016 presidential election , party leader Cheiffou received less than two percent of the vote.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CNDP - Repertoire des partis politiques legalement reconnus. (PDF file) MNSD-Nassara, October 25, 2013, archived from the original on June 17, 2015 ; Retrieved June 16, 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ cassure be au du parti de Mahamane Ousmane. Amadou Cheiffou crée son propre parti ( Memento of June 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Afrique Express website, accessed November 5, 2012.
  3. ↑ Les partis politiques nigériens, leurs leaders respectifs et les pratiques politiques inavouables ( Memento of February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Website africatime.com, published March 1, 2004, accessed November 5, 2012.
  4. ^ Mamoudou Gazibo: La vertu des procédures démocratiques: élections et mutation des comportements politiques au Niger . In: Roland Marchal (Ed.): Justice et réconciliation: ambiguïtés et impensés. Politique africaine No. 92 . Karthala, Paris 2003, p. 148.
  5. ^ Elections in Niger . African Elections Database, published October 30, 2011, accessed November 5, 2012.
  6. ↑ Zeinabou Gaoh: Déclaration de création de la Mouvance pour la Renaissance du Niger (MRN): trente-deux partis politiques s'allient pour une bonne gestion du pouvoir . nigerdiaspora.net, published August 9, 2011, accessed March 21, 2020.
  7. ^ Niger: Assemblée nationale (National Assembly). Last elections. Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2016, accessed March 13, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Results globaux provisoires. Commission Électorale Nationale Indépendante, February 2016, archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; accessed on March 13, 2016 (French).