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2010 Burkinabé Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Burkina Faso on 21 November 2010.. Incumbent president Blaise Compaoré was re-elected with 80% of the vote. The elections were marred by claims of widespread fraud.Compaore to face six in Burkina Faso presidential election
AFP, 9 October 2010


Candidates

A total of seven candidates registered to contest the elections, including three who contested the 2005 elections. Incumbent President



Blaise Compaoré 2014 White House (cropped)
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Party For Democracy And Socialism
The Party for Democracy and Socialism (french: Parti pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme) was a registered political party in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). In 1999 the African Independence Party (PAI) split, and Soumane Touré formed a parallel PAI. Since the PAI led by Touré, which joined the government, obtained the legal recognition of the name PAI, the other PAI registered PDS as its electoral party in 2002. At the legislative elections, 5 May 2002, PDS won 1.7% of the popular vote and 2 out of 111 seats. In the presidential election A presidential election is the election of any head of state whose official title is President. Elections by country Albania The president of Albania is elected by the Assembly of Albania who are elected by the Albanian public. Chile The pr ... of 13 November 2005, its candidate Philippe Ouédraogo won 2.28% of the popular vote. At the 2007 parliamentary elections, the party again won 2 seats. In 2012 the party merged into ...
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Presidential Elections In Burkina Faso
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Pargui Emile Paré
Pargui Emile Paré is a Burkinabé politician and member of the People's Movement for Socialism/Federal Party (MPS/FP). Running as candidate of the Socialist Alliance, a coalition of the MPS/FP and Unified Socialist Party (PSU). In the 13 November 2005 elections, Paré placed 10th out of 13 candidates, receiving 0.87% of the vote. Paré has also been announced as a candidate in the 2010 presidential election. Paré ran again for president in 2010, against incumbent Blaise Compaore. He is a member of the opposition People's Movement for Progress (MPP), and has called the 2014 Burkinabé uprising The 2014 Burkina Faso uprising was a series of demonstrations and riots in Burkina Faso in October 2014 that quickly spread to multiple cities. They began in response to attempts at changing the constitution to allow President Blaise Compaoré ... the "Black Spring". References Burkinabé politicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Burkinabé soci ...
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Independent Party Of Burkina
The Independent Party of Burkina (french: Parti indépendant du Burkina, PIB) was a political party in Burkina Faso. In 2014 Maxime Kaboré was the chairman of the party. History The party failed to win any seats in the 2012 parliamentary elections, in which its national list received 0.25% of the vote.Legislative elections in the national constituency
CENI The party held its first congress in
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Union For Rebirth / Sankarist Party
The Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party (french: Union pour la Renaissance / Parti Sankariste, UNIR / PS) is a political party in Burkina Faso. History The party was founded on November 1, 2000. Its president is Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara. The name "Sankarist" party appears to be a reference to both the late President Thomas Sankara and the party's current leader. The party subscribes to Sankarism. At the legislative elections on 5 May 2002, the party won 2.4% of the popular vote and three out of 111 seats. In the presidential election of 13 November 2005, its candidate Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara (born February 23, 1959) is a Burkinabé politician and the President of the Union for Rebirth/Sankarist Movement (UNIR/MS) party.
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Party For Democracy And Progress / Socialist Party
The Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party (french: Parti pour la Démocratie et le Progrès / Parti Socialiste) is a political party in Burkina Faso (former Upper Volta). It was founded in May 2001 by merger of the Party for Democracy and Progress with the Burkinabè Socialist Party. In the parliamentary election held on 5 May 2002, the party won 7.5% of the popular vote and 10 out of 111 seats. In the presidential election A presidential election is the election of any head of state whose official title is President. Elections by country Albania The president of Albania is elected by the Assembly of Albania who are elected by the Albanian public. Chile The pr ... of 13 November 2005, its candidate Ali Lankoandé won 1.74% of the popular vote. The party won two seats in the 2007 parliamentary election. In the 2010 presidential election, the PDP/PS candidate Ouampoussoga François Kaboré won .6% of the popular vote. Former member parties of the ...
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Union For Democracy And Social Progress (Burkina Faso)
The Union for Democracy and Social Progress (french: Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social) was a political party in Burkina Faso. In the 2007 parliamentary elections the party won one of the 111 seats in the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre .... Defunct political parties in Burkina Faso {{BurkinaFaso-party-stub ...
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Social Forces Front
The Social Forces Front (french: Front des Forces Sociales, FFS) is a Sankarist political party in Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...
. FFS candidate Norbert Tiendrébéogo ran in the 13 November 2005 Burkina Faso presidential elections, 2005, presidential election, placing 7th out of 13 candidates with 1.61% of the vote. At the 2007 parliamentary elections it took part as part of the Union des Parties Sankaristes, UPS. Tiendrébéogo was elected to the National Assembly as a second candidate of UPS. Political parties in Burkina Faso Sankarist political parties in Burkina Faso {{BurkinaFaso-party-stub ...
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African Independence Party (Burkina Faso)
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Blaise Compaoré
Blaise Compaoré (born 3 February 1951)''Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders'' (2003), page 76–77."Biographie du président"
website of the Presidency .
is a Burkinabé-Ivorian former politician who served as the second president of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014. He was a close associate of the first president, Thomas Sankara, during the 1980s, and in October 1987, he led a coup d'état during which Sankara was killed. Subsequently, he introd ...
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