Democratic Forces for Progress

Democratic Forces for Progress
Democratic Forces for Progress
Leader	Issa Dominique Konate
Founded	1990s
Dissolved	1990s
Ideology	Marxism ; Socialism ; Communism ; Social democracy
Political position	Center-left to far-left
	Politics of Burkina Faso ; Political parties ; Elections ;

Last updated March 24, 2019

The Democratic Forces for Progress (French : Forces Démocratiques pour le Progrès, FDP) was a political alliance in Burkina Faso (former Upper Volta. It existed in the early 1990s and consisted of the following political parties:

French is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) has largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French.

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The Republic of Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso, was a landlocked West African country established on December 11, 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Before attaining autonomy it had been French Upper Volta and part of the French Union. On August 5, 1960, it attained full independence from France.

Movement for Socialist Democracy was a political party in Burkina Faso. The MDS surged when the Burkinabè Communist Group split in April 1989. In March 1991 it took the name MDS. It became a founding organization of the ruling Congress for Democracy and Progress in February 1996.

African Independence Party was a communist party in French West Africa (AOF). PAI was founded in Thiès, Senegal in 1957. Later as AOF was dissolved into independent countries the local PAI sections became independent parties, often keeping the name PAI.

The Movement of Progressive Democrats was a political party in Burkina Faso.

Its leader was Issa Dominique Konate.

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