Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party

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Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party
Leader Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara
Founded2000
Dissolved2021
Merged into Union for Rebirth / Patriotic Sankarist Movement
Ideology Sankarism
Socialism
Political position Left-wing
Slogan"Avec le Peuple, Victoire!" ("With the People, Victory!")
National Assembly
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Website
Union pour la Renaissance / Mouvement Sankariste, UNIR/MS

The Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party (French : Union pour la Renaissance / Parti Sankariste, UNIR / PS) was a political party in Burkina Faso.

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History

Party headquarters of the UNIR/PS with a poster portraying Thomas Sankara. Siege UNIR PS Ouaga.jpg
Party headquarters of the UNIR/PS with a poster portraying Thomas Sankara.

The party was founded on November 1, 2000. Its president is lawyer Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara, [1] who bears no family relationship to Thomas Sankara. [2]

The name "Sankarist" party appears to be a reference to both the late President Thomas Sankara and the party's current leader. The party subscribes to Sankarism.

At the legislative elections on 5 May 2002, the party won 2.4% of the popular vote and three out of 111 seats. In the presidential election of 13 November 2005, its candidate Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara took second place with 4.88% of the popular vote. [3] At the 2007 parliamentary elections, the party won four seats.

Political scientist Bettina Engels  [ de ] states that the UNIR/PS was among the opposition parties that participated in the 2014 uprising that ousted Blaise Compaoré, but that it "did not play a major role". The UNIR/PS went on to support the government of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. [4]

On November 1st, 2021, it was announced that the party merged with the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Salut and other small Sankarist parties and organisations into a new party, the Union pour la Renaissance/ Mouvement patriotique sankariste (Union for Rebirth / Patriotic Sankarist Movement) or UNIR/MPS. [5] [6] Bénéwendé Sankara continued to lead this party until he was succeeded by interim president Augustin Loada in January 2023. [7]

Electoral history

National Assembly

Election year# of overall votes % of overall vote# of overall seats won+/–
2002 42,5992.45 (#)
3 / 111
2007 90,7053.89 (#4)
4 / 111
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2012 131,5924.36 (#4)
4 / 111
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2015 118,6623.76 (#5)
5 / 150
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2020 68,7272.45 (#6)
5 / 150
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References

  1. Page about the party Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine on thomassankara.net.
  2. De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway and Moussa Traore, "Military Coup, Popular Revolution or Militarised Revolution?", in A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara (ed. Amber Murrey), London: Pluto Press, 2018, p. 22.
  3. Elections in Burkina Faso, African Elections Database.
  4. Bettina Engels, "Social Movement Struggles and Political Transition in Burkina Faso", in A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara (ed. Amber Murrey), London: Pluto Press, 2018, pp. 264-265.
  5. https://lefaso.net/spip.php?article108688
  6. https://www.burkinademain.com/2021/11/01/unir-mps-nouveau-parti-sankariste-pour-repartir-a-la-conquete-du-pouvoir-detat
  7. https://burkina24.com/2023/01/22/presidence-de-lunir-mps-me-benewende-sankara-passe-le-temoin-apres-22-ans