People's Progressive Alliance (Mauritania)

The People's Progressive Alliance (French: Alliance populaire progressiste, APP) is a political party in Mauritania.

People's Progressive Alliance

Alliance populaire progressiste
PresidentMessoud Ould Boulkheir
IdeologyNasserism
Social democracy
Political positionCentre-left
Seats in the National Assembly:
7 / 146
Website
APP website

The President of the APP is Messoud Ould Boulkheir,[1] who was a candidate in the November 2003 presidential election, which was won by President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya. After Taya's ouster in 2005, Boulkheir stood as the APP candidate again in the March 2007 presidential election.[1] In this election, held on March 11, he placed fourth, receiving 9.79% of the vote;[2] he subsequently backed Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi for the second round,[3] despite the participation of the APP in the Coalition of the Forces for Democratic Change along with the other second round candidate, Ahmed Ould Daddah.[4] Abdallahi won the election, and in April 2007, Boulkheir was elected as President of the National Assembly.[5]

The APP won 5 seats in the National Assembly of Mauritania in the 2006 parliamentary election, along with another two seats won jointly with the Mauritanian Party for Union and Change (HATEM).[6] In the government of Prime Minister Zeine Ould Zeidane, named in April 2007, three members of the APP were appointed as ministers.[7] In the 21 January and 4 February 2007 Senate election, the APP won 1 out of 56 seats.

On September 2, 2007, Boulkheir said that the APP would not join a new party being formed to support Abdallahi.[8]

Following the August 2008 military coup d'état, the APP, along with the pro-Abdallahi National Pact for Democracy and Development (PNDD-ADIL), joined the four-party National Front for the Defence of Democracy, which opposed the coup.[9]

References
  1. "Messoud Ould Boulkheir, candidat à la présidentielle mauritanienne de mars" Archived 2007-08-20 at the Wayback Machine, African Press Agency (lemauritanien.com), January 20, 2007 (in French).
  2. "Le conseil constitutionnel proclame les résultats du premier tour de l'élection présidentielles du 11 mars 2007", Agence Mauritanienne d'Information, March 15, 2007 (in French).
  3. "Debate between Mauritanian presidential candidates to be held on Friday", Maghrebia.com, March 20, 2007.
  4. "How Sidi Ould Abdellahi won the Mauritanian presidential election", African Press Agency, March 27, 2007.
  5. "L'Assemblée nationale élit M. Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, son président", AMI, April 26, 2007 (in French).
  6. IPU page on 2006 parliamentary election (in French)
  7. "Mauritanie: formation d'un nouveau gouvernement", AFP (Jeuneafrique.com), April 28, 2007 (in French).
  8. "Ould Belkheir refuse d'intégrer le nouveau parti présidentiel" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Panapress (afriquenligne.fr), September 3, 2007 (in French).
  9. "Hundreds attend anti-coup rally in Mauritania" Archived 2008-08-12 at the Wayback Machine, AFP, August 8, 2008.
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