People's Progressive Alliance (Mauritania)

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People's Progressive Alliance
Alliance populaire progressiste
President Messoud Ould Boulkheir
Headquarters Nouakchott
Ideology Nasserism
Social democracy
Haratin interests
Political position Centre-left
Seats in the National Assembly:
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Website
APP website

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

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. [2] [3]

After Taya's ouster in August 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; [4] he subsequently backed Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi for the second round, [5] 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. [6] Abdallahi won the election, and in April 2007, Boulkheir was elected as President of the National Assembly. [7]

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). [8] In the government of Prime Minister Zeine Ould Zeidane, named in April 2007, three members of the APP were appointed as ministers. [9] In the 21 January and 4 February 2007 Senate election, the APP won only 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. [10]

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 Defense of Democracy, which opposed the coup. [11]

As of 2023, the APP party has no representation in the Mauritanian Parliament, it has zero seats. [12]

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  2. ↑ "Ould Taya réélu dès le premier tour, son principal adversaire "à l'abri"". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2003-11-08. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
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  4. ↑ "Le conseil constitutionnel proclame les résultats du premier tour de l'élection présidentielles du 11 mars 2007" [ permanent dead link ], Agence Mauritanienne d'Information, March 15, 2007 (in French).
  5. ↑ "Debate between Mauritanian presidential candidates to be held on Friday", Maghrebia.com, March 20, 2007.
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  7. ↑ "L'Assemblée nationale élit M. Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, son président" [ permanent dead link ], AMI, April 26, 2007 (in French).
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  9. ↑ "Mauritanie: formation d'un nouveau gouvernement", AFP (Jeuneafrique.com), April 28, 2007 (in French).
  10. ↑ "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).
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