Union for Democracy and Social Progress (Niger)

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Union for Democracy and Social Progress
UDPS-Amana
Party leader Issouf Bako
Secretary General Aliou Ibrahim
founding December 8, 1990
Headquarters Niamey , Niger
Alignment centrist
Parliament seats 0 of 171

The Union for Democracy and Social Progress ( French : Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social-Amana , abbreviation: UDPS-Amana ) is a political party in Niger .

Alignment

The Union for Democracy and Social Progress is a party of the political center . Most of its members are Tuareg . The party has been committed to the decentralization of Niger since it was founded . It has its home power in the Agadez region , where the Tuareg make up the majority of the population. The party's nickname is of Arab origin (أمانة / Amāna ) and means "trust".

history

The Union for Democracy and Social Progress was founded on December 8, 1990. Its first chairman was Akoli Daouel . The party took part in the 1991 National Conference preparing the country's change to a democratic, multi-party system . Akoli Daouel left the UDPS-Amana in 1992 to found a new party under his leadership, the Party for National Unification and Democracy (PUND-Salama). The function of UDPS-Amana chairman took over until 1996 Mohamed Abdoullahi , who later joined the party National Movement of the Development Society (MNSD-Nassara), for which he sat in the government from 2004 to 2007 as minister for mining.

In the parliamentary elections of 1993 , the UDPS-Amana succeeded in entering the National Assembly , where she received one of 83 seats. She joined the nine-party coalition Alliance of Forces of Change, which sought to end the sole rule of the MNSD-Nassara party, which she succeeded for the time being. However, the coalition soon lost important member parties, so that President Mahamane Ousmane of the Alliance Party Democratic and Social Assembly (CDS-Rahama) faced a parliamentary majority of opposition parties. The stalemate was not lifted by the parliamentary elections in 1995 , in which the UDPS-Amana won two of 83 seats: the parliamentary parties supporting the president, including the UDPS-Amana, had 40 members and the opposition parties 43 members. The crippling political situation ended in 1996 with a coup d'état by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , who was elected president in the 1996 presidential election. Unlike most of the major opposition parties, the UDPS-Amana did not boycott the 1996 parliamentary elections and won three of 83 seats. Since the fall of Baré Maïnassara and the parliamentary elections of 1999 , the UDPS-Amana failed to get back into the National Assembly in all elections.

In 2005, Rhissa Ag Boula , a founding member of UDPS-Amana, took over the party chairmanship. His involvement with the paramilitary rebel organization Movement of the Nigerien for Justice cost him the office in 2008. Since then, Issouf Bako , formerly deputy party chairman, has headed the UDPS-Amana. When President Mamadou Tandja (MNSD-Nassara) sought a third term in office that was not provided for in the constitution in 2009, for which purpose he switched off parliament and the constitutional court and had his hold on power confirmed by the constitutional referendum of 2009 , the UDPS-Amana was one of his supporters. Even after Tandja was overthrown in 2010, the party supported the MNSD Nassara candidate Seini Oumarou in the 2011 presidential election , but he was defeated by Mahamadou Issoufou of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya). In 2011, the UDPS-Amana formed an alliance with 32 other political parties and groupings, which agreed on common principles and agreed to support the Mahamadou Issoufou government in its projects.

Individual evidence

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  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 October 25, 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. ^ Sanoussi Tambari Jackou: La classe politique du Niger: Vers une recomposition politique? ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2009 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. . Temoust.org website, published July 17, 2009, accessed October 11, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.temoust.org
  6. ↑ Daouel, Akoli . In: Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , p. 169.
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  8. ^ A b Elections in Niger . African Elections Database website, published October 30, 2011, accessed October 25, 2012.
  9. ^ Emmanuel Grégoire: Cohabitation au Niger . In: Afrique contemporaine . No. 175/1995 ( online version ; PDF; 2.1 MB), p. 47.
  10. ^ Former Nigeria Rebel Leader Dismissed From His Party's Leadership ( Memento from September 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). NetNewsPublisher Web site, published February 9, 2008, accessed October 25, 2012.
  11. ^ 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 . Le Sahel website, published February 22, 2011, accessed October 25, 2012.
  12. ↑ 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 ( Memento of December 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Le Sahel website, published August 9, 2011, accessed October 25, 2012.