Mauritanian Progressive Union

Political party in Mauritania
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The Mauritanian Progressive Union (French: Union progressiste mauritanienne, UPM) was a political party in pre-independence Mauritania.

History

The UPM was established in February 1948,[1] in order to form a more conservative and regionally-based opposition to the Mauritanian Entente party.[2] The first election contested by the party was the 1951 French National Assembly elections, in which its candidate Sidi el-Mokhtar N'Diaye defeated the incumbent MP Horma Ould Babana. The following year Moktar Ould Daddah became party leader.[3] The Territorial Assembly elections that year saw the UPM won 22 of the 24 seats.[4]

N'Diaye was re-elected in the 1956 French elections, receiving 84% of the vote. The 1957 Territorial Assembly elections saw the party win 33 of the 34 seats.[3]

In 1958 the party merged with the Mauritanian Entente and the Gorgol Democratic Bloc to form the Mauritanian Regroupment Party.[5]

References

  1. ^ Anthony G. Pazzanita (2008) Historical Dictionary of Mauritania, Scarecrow Press, p5
  2. ^ Pazzanita, p255
  3. ^ a b Pazzanita, p6
  4. ^ Mauritania: Postwar Reforms Library of Congress Country Studies
  5. ^ Pazzanita, p393
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Represented in the National Assembly (176 seats)
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Parties dissolved after the 2023 Mauritanian parliamentary election


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