Dahomeyan Democratic Movement

The Dahomeyan Democratic Movement (French: Mouvement Democratique Dahoméen, MDD) was a political party in French Dahomey.

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History

The MDD was established in northern Dahomey by Hubert Maga in 1951 as the Ethnic Group of the North (Groupement Ethnique du Nord, GEN). Maga had previously been a member of the ruling Dahomeyan Progressive Union, but was encouraged to split from the party by the local French administrator Roger Péperty.[1] Maga gained support from his Bariba people, and won one of the two Dahomey seats in the French National Assembly in the June 1951 elections.[2]

The party won 9 of the 32 second college seats in the 1952 Territorial Assembly elections, emerging as the second-largest faction behind the Republican Party of Dahomey. In 1953 it became the Dahomeyan Democratic Movement.[3] Maga was re-elected to the French National Assembly in 1956.

The MDD was reduced to six seats in the 1957 Territorial Assembly elections, and in August 1957 it merged with the Independents of the North party led by Paul Darboux to form the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally.[4]

gollark: They just PRINT money and give it to random people!
gollark: Anyway, if you make it so you can, in theory, read books or something to get jobs instead of college, demand for that will go down and prices will be saner.
gollark: HERESY!
gollark: Yes, me too, that's why I suggested it!
gollark: I have another one: what if we make it illegal to ask anyone if they have a college/university degree, or to tell anyone if you have one?

References
  1. Mathurin C Houngnikpo & Samuel Decalo (2012) Historical Dictionary of Benin, Scarecrow Press, p247
  2. Sternberger, D, Vogel, B, Nohlen, D & Landfried, K (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Ereste Halbband, p530 (in German)
  3. Houngnikpo & Decalo, p193
  4. Houngnikpo & Decalo, p305
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