The Sankarist Pan-African Convention () was a

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, ...

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 ...

. CPS was formed in 2000, through the merger of the Burkinabè Socialist Bloc, Party of United Social Democracy and a fraction of the

Social Forces Front The Social Forces Front (, FFS) is a Sankarist political party in Burkina Faso. FFS candidate Norbert Tiendrébéogo ran in the 13 November 2005 presidential election A presidential election is the election of any head of state whose offi ...

. The party is led by

Ernest Nongma Ouédraogo Ernest is a given name derived from the Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious", often shortened to Ernie. Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People *Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian ...

, former Minister of Security in the government of

Thomas Sankara Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (; 21 December 1949 – 15 October 1987) was a Burkinabè military officer, Marxist and Pan-Africanist revolutionary who served as the President of Burkina Faso from 1983, following his takeover in a coup, until ...

. The party is Sankarist. At the last

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, 5 May 2002, the party won 2.6% of the popular vote and 3 out of 111 seats. In March 2009 it merged with ''Union for Rebirth/Sankarist Mouvement'' and a part of the

to form the

Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party The Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party (, UNIR / PS) was a political party in Burkina Faso. History The party was founded on November 1, 2000. Its president is lawyer Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara, who bears no family relationship to the late ...

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