The Union for the Republic ( ar, الإتحاد من أجل الجمهورية; french: Union pour la République, UPR) was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

in Mauritania. The party was formed in 2009 by

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz ( ar, محمد ولد عبد العزيز ''Muḥammad Wald 'Abd al-'Azīz''; born 20 December 1956) is a former Mauritanian politician who was the 8th President of Mauritania, in office from 2009 to 2019. A career sold ...

after he resigned from the military, to run for President of Mauritania. Aziz resigned as chairman of the party on 2 August 2009 after winning the presidential election, as the

President of Mauritania This is a list of heads of state of Mauritania since the country gained independence from France in 1960 to the present day. A total of nine people have served as head of state of Mauritania (not counting one Acting President). Additionally, o ...

cannot be a member of any party. The party also won 13 of the 17 seats up for re-election to the Mauritanian Senate in 2009, giving the UPR control of a total of 38 of the 53 Senate seats. As a result of the 2018 parliamentary election, UPR became the largest political party in Mauritania. Four major political parties merged into the Union for the Republic after the election. On October 18, 2018, a month after the previous legislative election, the Unionist Party for the Construction of Mauritania voted to merge itself into the UPR. On the 21st, Choura for Development adopted the same decision, while centrist El Wiam, which used to be on the moderate opposition, did the same on the 29th. The last party to merge into the UPR was the National Pact for Democracy and Development, which was the previous ruling party from 2007 until 2008's coup. PNDD-ADIL merged into the UPR on December 27, 2019. The party refounded itself as the Equity Party in July 2022.

Election results

Presidential

National Assembly elections

Presidents of the Union for the Republic

, 5 May 2009 – 2 August 2009 *

Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine (born in 1952) is a Mauritanian politician. Born in the Hodh El Gharbi region, Ould Mohamed Lemine graduated from the University of Cairo with a diploma in economics and has worked as a professor at the Univer ...

, 2 August 2009 – 29 December 2019 * Sidi Mohamed Ould Taleb Omar, 29 December 2019 – 3 July 2022

References

External links

Official web site
{{Mauritanian political parties Political parties in Mauritania Political parties established in 2009 Political parties disestablished in 2022