Union for the Republic (Mauritania)
Union for the Republic الاتحاد من أجل الجمهورية | |
|---|---|
| President | Sidi Mohamed Ould Taleb Omar |
| Founder | Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz |
| Founded | 5 May 2009[1] |
| Dissolved | 3 July 2022 |
| Succeeded by | Equity Party |
| Headquarters | Nouakchott |
| Ideology | Populism Reformism Economic liberalism |
| Political position | Centre[2][3] to centre-right[4] |
| National affiliation | Coalition of the Majority |
| International affiliation | Centrist Democrat International |
| Website | |
| www.upr.mr | |
The Union for the Republic (Arabic: الاتحاد من أجل الجمهورية; French: Union pour la République, UPR) was a political party in Mauritania. The party was formed on 5 May 2009 by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz after he resigned from the military, to run for President of Mauritania. Aziz resigned as chairman of the party on 2 August 2009 after winning the presidential election, as the President of Mauritania cannot be a member of any party.[5] The party also won 13 of the 17 seats up for re-election to the Mauritanian Senate in 2009, giving the UPR control of a total of 38 of the 53 Senate seats.[6][7]
As a result of the 2018 parliamentary election, UPR became the largest political party in Mauritania.[8] Four major political parties merged into the Union for the Republic after the election. On October 18, 2018, a month after the previous legislative election, the Unionist Party for the Construction of Mauritania voted to merge itself into the UPR.[9] On the 21st, Choura for Development adopted the same decision,[10] while centrist El Wiam, which used to be on the moderate opposition, did the same on the 29th.[11] The last party to merge into the UPR was the National Pact for Democracy and Development, which was the previous ruling party from 2007 until 2008's coup. PNDD-ADIL merged into the UPR on December 27, 2019.[12]
The party refounded itself as the Equity Party on 3 July 2022.[13]
Election results
Presidential
| Election year | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | Result | Winning candidate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Rank | Votes | % | Rank | ||||
| 2009 | Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz | 409,024 | 52.54 | 1st | N/a | Won | Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz | ||
| 2014 | 577,995 | 81.89 | 1st | N/a | Won | ||||
| 2019 | Mohamed Ould Ghazouani | 483,007 | 52.00 | 1st | N/a | Won | Mohamed Ould Ghazouani | ||
National Assembly elections
| Election | Party leader | PR seats | Women's seats | Constituency seats | Seats | +/– | Position | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | First round | Second round | |||||||
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||||||
| 2013 | Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine | 127,580 | 21.34% | 138,651 | 24.74% | 299,605 | 39.21% | 124,656 | 55.11% |
75 / 146
|
75 | 1st |
| 2018 | 136,809 | 19.47% | 135,831 | 19.60% |
93 / 157
|
18 | 1st | |||||
Presidents of the Union for the Republic
- Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, 5 May 2009 – 2 August 2009
- Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine, 2 August 2009 – 29 December 2019
- Sidi Mohamed Ould Taleb Omar, 29 December 2019[14] – 3 July 2022.[15]
References
- ^ "Q&A: Mauritania elections". 17 July 2009 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ Porges, Matthew (2019-06-14). "In Bir Moghrein". LRB Blog. London Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
- ^ IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2014 (Report). European Institute of the Mediterranean. 2014. p. 421. ISSN 1698-3068. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
- ^ "Mauritania - Africa Elects". Africa Elects. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
- ^ "Mauritania's president-elect resigns as party leader". People's Daily Online.
- ^ "MAURITANIA (Majlis Al-Chouyoukh)". Archived from the original on February 9, 2015. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
- ^ "Mauritania" (PDF). U.S. Department of State.
- ^ "Mauritania's ruling party wins majority parliament". Washington Post.
- ^ "Le parti unioniste pour la construction de la Mauritanie rejoint l'UPR" [The Unionist Party for the Construction of Mauritania joins the UPR]. Chezvlane (in French). 2018-10-18. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
- ^ حزب الشورى من أجل التنمية يقرر الإندماج بحزب الإتحاد من أجل الجمهورية [The Choura for Development Party decides to merger in the Union for the Republic.] (Facebook Watch video) (in Hassaniyya). El Mourabitoun. October 21, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
- ^ "Annonce de la fusion du parti El Wiam dans l'UPR" [Announcement of the fusion of El Wiam party into UPR]. AMI (Mauritania News Agency) (in French). 2018-10-29. Archived from the original on 2018-12-07. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
- ^ "Politique: Adil intègre l'UPR (officiel)" [Politics: Adil joins the UPR (official)]. Rimfeed (in French). 2019-12-27. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
- ^ "ولد أييه رئيسا للحزب الحاكم بعد تغيير اسمه وشعاره" [Ould Eiye [is the] president of the governing party after its name and symbol change.]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 2022-07-03. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
- ^ "Mauritanie : l'UPR tourne la page de l'ancien président Aziz – Jeune Afrique" [Mauritania: the UPR turns the page of the old president Aziz - Young Africa]. JeuneAfrique.com (in French). 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2021-09-08..
- ^ "ولد أييه رئيسا للحزب الحاكم بعد تغيير اسمه وشعاره" [Ould Eiye [is the] president of the governing party after its name and symbol change.]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 2022-07-03. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
External links
- Official web site Archived 2018-02-13 at the Wayback Machine