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]   |
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Bruno Amoussou
Bruno Ange-Marie Amoussou (born 2 July 1939) (84 years) is a Beninese politician who was President of the National Assembly of Benin from 1995 to 1999 and Minister of State for Planning and Prospective Development under President Mathieu Kérékou from 1999 to 2005. He is currently a Deputy in the National Assembly. As the long-time leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Amoussou stood as a presidential candidate in 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006. Political career Amoussou was born in Djakotomey in south-western Benin. In the 1991 presidential election, he received 5.8% of the vote and fourth place, therefore failing to qualify for the second round. Following the March 1995 parliamentary election, he was elected as President of the National Assembly on 12 June 1995. During his political career, his support was locally concentrated in his native southwest, but it was sufficient to enable him to be a consistent player on the political scene during the 1990s and 2000s.Jennifer C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Key Force
The Key Force () was a political alliance in Benin. History The alliance was formed prior to the parliamentary election, and consisted of the Movement for the People's Alternative, the 30th April Movement and some other political leaders. It joined the Presidential Movement, an alliance of supporters of Mathieu Kérékou, who had won the 2001 presidential elections. The Key Force won five out of 83 seats in the elections. In the 2007, parliamentary election the alliance won four seats. African Press Agency, April 8, 2007. It joined the Union Makes the Nation
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Beninese Presidential Election, 2011
Benin, officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It was formerly known as Dahomey. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north-west, and Niger to the north-east. The majority of its population lives on the southern coastline of the Bight of Benin, part of the Gulf of Guinea in the northernmost tropical portion of the Atlantic Ocean. The capital is Porto-Novo, and the seat of government is in Cotonou, the most populous city and economic capital. Benin covers an area of , and its population in was estimated to be approximately million. It is a tropical country with an economy heavily dependent on agriculture and is an exporter of palm oil and cotton. From the 17th to the 19th century, political entities in the area included the Kingdom of Dahomey, the city-state of Porto Novo, and other states to the north. This region was referred to as the Slave Coast of West Africa from the early 17th century due to the high nu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 a second term in 2011 Beninese presidential election, March 2011. He also served as the Chairperson of the African Union, chairperson of the African Union from 29 January 2012 to 27 January 2013. Early life and banking career Boni was born in Tchaourou, in the Borgou Department in northern Benin, then the French Dahomey, French colony of Dahomey. He received his education first in the regional capital of Parakou before moving on to earn a master's degree in economics at the National University of Benin. He then pursued an additional master's degree in economics at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, and then earned a doctorate in economics and politics at the University of Orléans in France and at Paris Dauphine University ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Rally Of Liberal Democrats For National Reconstruction
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Party For Democracy And Social Progress
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National Union For Democracy And Progress (Benin)
The National Union for Democracy and Progress (''Union Nationale pour la Démocratie et le Progrès'') is a political party of Benin. 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 two out of 83 seats. African Elections Database. References Political parties in Benin Political parties with year of establishment missing {{Benin-party-s ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Movement For Development And Solidarity
The Movement for Development and Solidarity () is a political party in Benin. In the legislative elections held on 30 March 2003, the party was a member of the Presidential Movement, the alliance of supporters of Mathieu Kérékou, who had won the 2001 presidential elections, and won one out of 83 seats. It helped form the coalition Union Makes the Nation, the main opposition to 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 ...'s government following the 2011 elections. Political parties in Benin Political parties with year of establishment missing {{Benin-party-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Benin Rebirth Party
The Benin Rebirth Party () is a liberal political party in Benin. The party was founded on 24 March 1992 by then- First Lady Rosine Vieyra Soglo, who became the first Beninese woman to establish a new political party. The party was also headed by Vieyra Soglo after its foundation. It is led by Nicéphore Soglo, who was President of Benin from 1991 to 1996 and later Mayor of Cotonou. Rosine Vieyra Soglo established the party to provide political support for her husband, then-President Nicéphore Soglo, who lacked backing from Benin's political elite. It initially worked, as the Benin Rebirth Party won 20 of the 83 seats in the National Assembly in the 1995 Beninese parliamentary election. However, President Nicéphore Soglo, who was seeking re-election, was defeated by former President Mathieu Kérékou in the 1996 Beninese presidential election. Soglo was the RB candidate in the March 2001 presidential election, taking second place with 27.1% of the popular vote in the first ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adrien Houngbédji
Adrien Houngbédji (born 5 March 1942) is a Beninese politician and the leader of the Democratic Renewal Party (''Parti du renouveau démocratique'', PRD), one of Benin's main political parties. He was President of the National Assembly of Benin from 1991 to 1995, Prime Minister of Benin from 1996 to 1998, and President of the National Assembly again from 1999 to 2003. Beginning in 1991, he stood repeatedly as a presidential candidate; he placed second in 2006, but was heavily defeated by Yayi Boni in a second round of voting. From 2015 to 2019, he served for a third time as President of the National Assembly. Political career Adrien Houngbédji was born in Aplahoué (Benin) in 1942.National Assembly page on Houngbédji , bj.refer.org . He earned a Doctorate in Law from the [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Social Democratic Party (Benin)
The Social Democratic Party () is a political party in Benin. The PSD was founded in 1990. Running together with the National Union for Solidarity and Progress (UNSP) in the Beninese parliamentary election, 1991, February 1991 parliamentary election, the PSD won 9.8% of the vote and eight out of 64 seats in the National Assembly of Benin, National Assembly. The PSD's first ordinary congress began on 29 January 2000; this was the party's first congress in ten years. 700 delegates participated in the congress, and at the congress a national executive committee, composed of 19 members, was elected. Bruno Amoussou was elected as the party's president on this occasion, while Felix Adimi was elected as vice-president and Emmanuel Golou was elected as secretary-general. Amoussou was the PSD candidate in the Beninese presidential election, 2001, 2001 presidential election. He won 8.6% of the popular vote in the first round, held on 4 March 2001, and placed fourth. The second and third ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |