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The Party of the Masses for Labour (French : Parti des Masses pour le Travail, PMT-Albarka) is a political party in Niger.
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The Party of the Masses for Labour (French : Parti des Masses pour le Travail, PMT-Albarka) is a political party in Niger.
The PMT was established on 8 June 1992. [1] It failed to win a seat in the National Assembly in the 1993 or 1995 parliamentary elections, but won two seats in the 1996 elections, which were boycotted by the main opposition parties. [2]
The party received only 34 votes in the 1999 parliamentary elections, resulting in it losing both seats. [3] In the 2004 elections it contested three regions in alliance with the Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Progress, but failed to win a seat. [4] It regained parliamentary representation when it won a single seat in the 2009 elections, which were boycotted by the main opposition. [2] However, it did not run in the 2011 elections and was declared ineligible to contest the 2016 elections by the Constitutional Court. [5]
Politics of Niger takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Niger is head of state and the Prime Minister of Niger head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly.
The National Democratic Party is a political party in Djibouti. It was founded as an opposition party in 1992 by Aden Robleh Awaleh, who remains the party's president. It was part of the ruling coalition in 2005, but has since rejoined the opposition against President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh.
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The Nigerien Progressive Party – African Democratic Rally is a political party in Niger. It was the nation's leading political party of the pre-independence era, becoming the sole legal party of the First Republic (1960–1974). It was led by Niger's first President, Hamani Diori. After the end of military rule, the party reappeared as a minor parliamentary party led by Diori's son, Abdoulaye Hamani Diori.
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Sanoussi Tambari Jackou was a Nigerien politician and the President of the Nigerien Party for Self-Management (PNA-Al'ouma). He was Vice-President of the National Assembly of Niger from 1993 to 1994 and served in the government as Minister of State for Higher Education, Research, Technology, and African Integration later in the 1990s. He was a Deputy in the National Assembly from 2004 to 2010.
Parliamentary elections were held in Niger on 20 October 2009, after President Mamadou Tandja dissolved the National Assembly in May 2009 and a constitution referendum was held in August 2009. The elections were boycotted by most opposition parties, and saw Tandja's National Movement for the Society of Development (MNSD) win a landslide victory.
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