The Union for Future Benin () was an electoral alliance in

Benin 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 po ...

. The alliance was made up of a coalition of political parties which were part of the Presidential Movement - a movement of supporters of

Mathieu Kérékou Mathieu Kérékou (; 2 September 1933 – 14 October 2015) was a Beninese politician who served as president of the People's Republic of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and the Benin, Republic of Benin from 1996 to 2006. After seizing power in a milita ...

who had won the controversial 2001 presidential elections. The Union for Future Benin supported Kérékou in the

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 ...

held on 30 March 2003 and won 31 out of 83 seats. In this election, Karamou Fassassi was elected to the

National Assembly of Benin The unicameral National Assembly () is Benin's legislative body. The National Assembly in Porto-Novo as it exists today was formed in 1990. The current National Assembly has 109 members, who are directly elected through a system of party-list pr ...

as a candidate of the Union for Future Benin. He then ran in the March 2006 presidential election, claiming that he wanted to defend Kérékou's legacy; he lost to

Boni Yayi 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 March 2006 presidential election and was re-elected to a second term in March 2011. He a ...

. The most important of the member parties were the

Action Front for Renewal and Development The Action Front for Renewal and Development () is a political party in Benin founded in 1994. It is the party Mathieu Kérékou belonged to during his second presidency, which lasted from 1996 to 2006.Agnès Oladoun Badou"Partis Politiques et S ...

() and the

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties Form ...

().

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