The Monitor Action Group is a

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. The party came into existence as the transformation of the

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in 1991,

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s, with most of the top leadership having served in the government of

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. In June 2009, the party contended that aspects of the

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policy of Namibia violated the country's constitution.

Electoral history

At the

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15 and 16 November 2004, the party won 0.8% of popular votes and 1 out of 72 seats. The party was run by Kosie Pretorius, though

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was the party's representative in the National Assembly. In the 2009 election, the party chose not to run a candidate for president, but competed for seats in the

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. However, the party received only 4,718 votes, just below the minimum for a seat in the National Assembly. Ahead of the election, the top four party leaders were Kosie Pretorius, Jurie Viljoen, Gernot Wilfrid Schaaf and Eric Peters. The party's election results further deteriorated in 2014. It did not contest the

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. In the 2020 local authority election it narrowly gained a seat in the

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municipality.

Presidential elections

National Assembly elections

References

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