Movement for Democracy, Independence and Social Progress
The Movement for Democracy, Independence and Social Progress (French: Mouvement pour la Démocratie l'Indépendance et le Progrès Social, MDI-PS) is a political party in the Central African Republic.
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History
The MDI-PS was established in 1991 as a non-sectarian party.[1] The party joined the opposition Consultation of Opposition Political Parties alliance for the 2005 general elections.[2] The alliance won 11 seats, of which the MDI-PS won three.[2]
In 2010 the party joined the Presidential Majority alliance in preparation for the 2011 general elections.[3] The MDI-PS nominated 14 candidates for the 105 seats in the National Assembly,[4] winning one of the alliance's 11 seats.
gollark: It has *mostly* up until issues this year.
gollark: The majority of active members know each other fairly well.
gollark: We should probably aim to... not do this... but it's hard to actually encourage sane well-reasoned debate *even if you don't agree with the other person*.
gollark: Mostly people just seem to want you to vaguely parrot popular opinions.
gollark: I genuinely don't think people actually care much about coherency/well-foundedness in most contexts.
References
- Arthur S. Banks, William Overstreet & Thomas Muller (2008) Political Handbook of the World 2008 CQ Press, p231
- CAR: 2005 National Assembly election results EISA
- Political agreement between the parties of the Presidential Majority Archived 2017-12-23 at the Wayback Machine Journal de Bangui, 24 December 2010
- CAR: Number of National Assembly candidates by party in the 2011 election EISA
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