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Presidential Movement
This article lists political parties in Benin. Benin has a multi-party system. The parties Parliamentary parties Elected in the 2023 parliamentary election. Other parties *Presidential Movement (''Mouvance Presidentielle'') ** Union for Future Benin or Union of Tomorrow's Benin (''Union pour le Bénin du futur'') *** Action Front for Renewal and Development (''Front d'action pour le rénouveau et le développement'', FARD-ALAFIA) **Impulse to Progress and Democracy (''Impulsion au progrès et la démocratie'') **Alliance MDC-PS-CPP *** Movement for Development by Culture (''Mouvement pour le Développement par la Culture'') *** Party of Salvation (''Parti du Salut'') *** Congress of People for Progress (''Congrès du Peuple pour le Progrès'') ** Alliance of Progress Forces (''Alliance des Forces du Progrès'') ** Rally for Democracy and Progres (''Rassemblement pour la Démocratie et le Progrès'') *Amana Alliance (''Alliance Amana'') *Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin ('' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ideological or policy goals. Political parties have become a major part of the politics of almost every country, as modern party organizations developed and spread around the world over the last few centuries. Although List of countries without political parties, some countries have no political parties, this is extremely rare. Most countries have Multi-party system, several parties while others One-party state, only have one. Parties are important in the politics of autocracies as well as democracies, though usually Democracy, democracies have more political parties than autocracies. Autocracies often have a single party that Government, governs the country, and some political scientists consider competition between two or more parties to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of Tomorrow's Benin
The Union for Future Benin () was an electoral alliance in Benin. The alliance was made up of a coalition of political parties which were part of the Presidential Movement - a movement of supporters of Mathieu Kérékou who had won the controversial 2001 presidential elections. The Union for Future Benin supported Kérékou in the parliamentary elections held on 30 March 2003 and won 31 out of 83 seats. In this election, Karamou Fassassi was elected to the National Assembly of Benin as a candidate of the Union for Future Benin. He then ran in the March 2006 presidential election, claiming that he wanted to defend Kérékou's legacy; he lost to Boni Yayi. The most important of the member parties were the Action Front for Renewal and Development () and the Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Movement For Development And Progress
The African Movement for Development and Progress () is a political party in Benin created in 1997. In the legislative elections held on 30 March 2003, the party was part of the Presidential Movement, the alliance of supporters of President Mathieu Kérékou, who had won the 2001 presidential election, and won nine out of 83 seats.IPU PARLINE page for 2003 parliamentary election . , African Elections Database. The President of MADEP is Séfou Fagbohoun, a wealthy businessman. A leading member of the party, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Renewal Party (Benin)
The Democratic Renewal Party () was a political party of Benin led by Adrien Houngbédji. Houngbédji lived in exile for several years, but returned to Benin to take part in the National Conference of 1990. He built up his party largely around other exiled Beninese. PRD was legally recognized on September 24, 1990. Houngbédji was elected to the National Assembly in the 1991 parliamentary election and served as President of the National Assembly until 1995. In 1996, PRD joined the government, and Houngbédji was appointed prime minister. The coalition didn't last, however. Following the 1999 parliamentary election, Houngbédji was again elected as President of the National Assembly. The PRD was mainly based in Ouémé. In the presidential election of 5 March 2006, Houngbédji, the PRD candidate, won 24.2% of the votes in the first round. In the second round he won 25.4% and was defeated by Yayi Boni Thomas Boni Yayi (born 1 July 1951) is a Beninese banker and politician w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance For A Democratic Dynamic
The Alliance for a Democratic Dynamic () is an opposition alliance of Benin which contested the Beninese parliamentary election of 2007. It comprised the Social Democratic Party of Bruno Amoussou, the Renaissance Party of Benin of former President of Benin, Nicéphore Soglo and the African Movement for Development and Progress of Antoine Kolawolé Idji Antoine is a French given name (from the Latin ''Antonius'' meaning 'highly praise-worthy') that is a variant of Danton, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin. The name is most common in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, West Greenland, Haiti, Fren .... The alliance won 20 out of 83 seats, down from the 34 seats won by the three parties in the Beninese parliamentary election of 2003, when the SDP was part of the pro-government Union for Future Benin. The alliance was superseded by an expanded coalition, Union Makes the Nation, in time for the presidential election of 2011. Political party alliances in Benin {{Beni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Makes The Nation
Union Makes the Nation (, abbreviated UN or the Union) is an alliance of opposition political parties in Benin, West Africa. It is composed of the MADEP, PSD, RB, Key Force, MDS, UNDP, MARCHE, PDPS, and RDL VIVOTEN, and therefore represents an expansion of the Alliance for a Democratic Dynamic to embrace most of the significant Beninese parties opposed to the government of President Yayi Boni. The Union contested the 2011 presidential and parliamentary elections A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of a governing body at the same time. They are distinct from by-elections, which fill individual seats that have become vacant between general elections. General elections .... Their presidential candidate, Adrien Houngbédji, was credited with 35.7% of the vote; he issued a statement rejecting the validity of the election results. In the parliamentary elections, the Union took 30 seats out of 83 to become by far the largest opposition pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowry Forces For An Emerging Benin
The Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin (, FCBE) is a political party of Benin, formed by supporters of president Yayi Boni. In the parliamentary election held on 31 March 2007, the party won 35 out of 83 seats. The party expanded its plurality to 41 seats in the 2011 election that followed the contested reelection of Yayi Boni as president. After President Boni Yayi had served maximum two five-year terms, Lionel Zinsou, the candidate for Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin (FCBE), lost the March 2016 presidential election An election is a formal group decision-making process whereby a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold Public administration, public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative d ... to Patrice Talon. A controversial new electoral code introduced in July 2018 saw the party fail to be validated to run in the 2019 Beninese parliamentary election. Electoral history Parliamentary elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amana Alliance
The Amana Alliance (, AA) is a political alliance in Benin led by Nassirou Bako Arifari and Zimé Kora Gounou.Tom Lansford (2013) ''Political Handbook of the World 2013'', CQ Press, p145 The alliance supports President Yayi Boni Thomas Boni Yayi (born 1 July 1951) is a Beninese banker and politician who was the president of Benin from 2006 to 2016. He took office after winning the 2006 Beninese presidential election, March 2006 presidential election and was re-elected to .... History In the April 2011 parliamentary elections the alliance received 3.3% of the vote, winning two seats, taken by Kora Gounou and Ayouba Sanni. The AA contested the 2015 parliamentary elections in alliance with the Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rally For Democracy And Progres
The Rally for Democracy and Progress (, RDP) is a political party in Benin. History The party was established in 1995 as the Rally for Democracy and Pan-Africanism (''Rassemblement pour la Démocratie et le Panafricanisme'', RDP), and was led by Dominique Houngninou. In the parliamentary elections that year it received 1.4% of the vote, winning one seat, taken by Houngninou. In the 1999 elections its vote share fell to 0.9%, but Houngninou retained his seat. By the 2003 elections it had become the Rally for Democracy and Progress. It joined the Presidential Movement This article lists political parties in Benin. Benin has a multi-party system. The parties Parliamentary parties Elected in the 2023 parliamentary election. Other parties *Presidential Movement (''Mouvance Presidentielle'') ** Union for Fut ... (MP), with Houngninou again retaining his seat as the MP won a total of 52 seats. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance Of Progress Forces (Benin)
The Alliance of Progress Forces () is a political party in Benin. In the parliamentary election held on 30 March 2003, the party was part of the Presidential Movement, the alliance of supporters of Mathieu Kérékou (who had won the 2001 presidential election), and won one out of 83 seats. In the parliamentary election A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of a governing body at the same time. They are distinct from by-elections, which fill individual seats that have become vacant between general elections. General elections ... held on 31 March 2007, the party won one out of 83 seats. African Elections Database. References Political parties in Benin {{Benin-party-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Of People For Progress
The Congress of People for Progress () is a political party in Benin. At the last legislative elections in Benin, on March 30, 2003, the party was a member of the Presidential Movement, the alliance of supporters of Mathieu Kérékou Mathieu Kérékou (; 2 September 1933 – 14 October 2015) was a Beninese politician who served as president of the People's Republic of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and the Benin, Republic of Benin from 1996 to 2006. After seizing power in a milita ..., who had won the 2001 presidential elections. It took part in a combined list of the Movement for Development by Culture, the Party of Salvation and the Congress of People for Progress, that won two of the 83 available seats. References Political parties in Benin Political parties with year of establishment missing {{Benin-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of Salvation
The Party of Salvation (, PS) was a political party in Benin. History The PS was established in 1994. It contested the 1995 parliamentary elections in an alliance with the National Rally for Justice and Peace. However, the two parties failed to win a seat. The party ran alone in the 1999 elections, receiving 2.3% of the vote and winning one seat. Beikon Nestor Ezin became the party's sole MP. Constitutional Court Prior to the 2003 elections the party joined the |
