United People's Movement (Namibia)

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United People's Movement
Logo United People's Movement of Namibia.png
Party leader Jan van Wyk
Secretary General Thelma Kunze
Deputy Chairman Piet Junius
founding 2009 (1990)
Place of foundation Rehoboth
Headquarters Rehoboth
Colours) _ _
National Assembly Seats
1/96
National Council seats
0/42
Regional council seats
0/121
Local council seats
0/378
Website www.rehobothbasters.org

United People's Movement ( UPM for short ) is an ethnic party in Namibia . It emerged in 2009 from the "Rehoboth Democratic Movement" (Reho-DM). For a long time their goal was the independence of the traditional settlement area of ​​the Rehoboth Baster . Their headquarters are in Rehoboth .

The party is led by party president Jan van Wyk and vice president Piet Junius .

Election results

UPM only competed at regional and local level until 2014. Due to its orientation, it is particularly successful in the area around the city of Rehoboth and regularly won seats in the municipal administration . In the local elections in 2010 , it emerged as the second largest party.

She took part nationwide for the first time in the 2014 parliamentary elections and won a seat in the National Assembly of Namibia with 0.71 percent of the votes cast .

houses of Parliament

General election Voting shares Seats
2019
2014 0.71%
1/96

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nou United People's Movement, Die Republikein, July 30, 2010 ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ New political party emerges at Rehoboth The Namibian , March 16, 2010
  3. ↑ The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) hereby publishes the results for the 2010 Local Authority Elections for Rehoboth, Electoral Commission of Namibia ( Memento from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 51 kB) accessed on May 24, 2011
  4. ^ Namibian Electoral Commission. ( Memento of January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved August 2, 2018.