The Union for the Republic and Democracy ( , URD) is a political party in

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The party was formed by those who supported

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during the 2002 election. Most of its members came from

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, the former ruling party. It is believed they felt betrayed by outgoing President

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, who supported

Amadou Toumani Touré Amadou Toumani Touré (4 November 19489 November 2020), also popularly known in Mali by his initials ATT (), was a Malian politician. He supervised Mali's first multiparty elections as chairman of the transitional government (1991–1992), and la ...

(eventual winner of the 2002 presidential election) against his own party. The MCCDR of Boubacar Karamoko Coulibaly and the PMDR of Abdoul Wahab Berthe joined the URD. Both men are vice-presidents of the URD. The party placed second in the 2004 municipal elections and had 17 members in the National Assembly, including prominent members such as Mamadou Awa Gassama Diaby of Yelimane and Baba Oumar Bore of Kita. The party had 114 mayors in Mali including

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of Niafunke and

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of the fifth district of

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. The URD backed Amadou Toumani Touré for re-election in the April 2007 presidential election. The party, part of the pro-Touré Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ADP), won 34 out of 147 seats in the July 2007 parliamentary election."Mali: Résultats définitifs des Législatives — l'Adéma/PASJ perd dans trois localités"
'' Les Echos'', August 13, 2007 . At the URD's Third Ordinary Congress in November 2014, Soumaïla Cissé succeeded

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as President of the URD. Touré was instead designated as Honorary President."Soumaïla Cissé prend les rênes de l'URD"
Mali 24, 25 November 2014 . Following May 2020 the party won 17 seats out of 147 in the National Assembly of Mali, which makes it the third largest political party.

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