The Progressive Movement (french: Mouvement Progressiste, MP) is a minor opposition

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. It was formed on 23 August 1991 and is led by

Jean-Jacques Ekindi Jean-Jacques Ekindi (born January 1945Dippah Kayessé ''Quotidien Mutations'', 27 July 2007 .) is a Cameroonian politician. He has been the National President of the Progressive Movement (''Mouvement Progressiste'', MP),Joe Dinga Pefok"Douala Tit-B ...

. Ekindi was the MP candidate in the October 1992 presidential election, officially receiving 0.79% of the vote and placing fifth. An MP meeting at the Bepanda Omnisport Stadium in

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on 21 May 1994 was banned by the government, and when party members tried to hold the meeting anyway, a number of them were beaten by security forces. Again running as the party's presidential candidate in the 11 October 2004 presidential election, Ekindi announced his withdrawal from the election on 10 October in favor of

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, the candidate of the main opposition party, the Social Democratic Front (SDF). His name nevertheless remained on the ballot, and he placed 13th out of 16 candidates with 0.27% of the vote. In the 22 July 2007 parliamentary election, Ekindi was elected to the

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as an MP candidate from Wouri Centre constituency in Littoral Province, where the MP received 22.43% of the vote and one of the three available seats. Ekindi was the only member of his party to win a seat in the 2007 election. Shortly before the election, on 18 July 2007, the MP formalized an alliance with the

Cameroonian Democratic Union The Cameroon Democratic Union (french: Union Démocratique du Cameroun) is a political party in Cameroon. It was founded by Adamou Ndam Njoya, a former Minister of National Education under President Ahmadou Ahidjo, on 26 April 1991. The CDU boyco ...

(UDC); as part of this agreement, the parties decided not to run candidates in the same constituencies. Also at the time of the election, the alliance between the MP and the SDF collapsed because, according to Ekindi, the SDF decided to run candidates in Wouri Centre and ignored the alliance.Joe Dinga Pefok
"Ndam Njoya, Ekindi Agree On Mutual Support At Elections"
''The Post'' (Cameroon), 24 June 2007.

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