The Progressive Democratic Party (PRODEM) is a

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Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It ...

, formed in 2005. It fielded candidates in the 11 October 2005

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. The party's presidential candidate,

Sekou Conneh Sekou Damate Conneh, Jr. (born 1960) is a Liberian politician and former rebel leader. Biography Born in 1960 in the town of Gbarnga, Liberia (Bong County) to an ethnic Mandingo Muslim family, Conneh attended St. Martin's Cathedral School fro ...

, was chairman of the rebel group

Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy The Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) was a rebel group in Liberia that was active from 1999 until the resignation of Charles Taylor ended the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. While the group formally dissolved after the w ...

(LURD) during Liberia's second civil war. Conneh won 0.6% of the vote in the presidential poll.Elections in Liberia
African Elections Database. The party failed to win any seats in the

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