Union for Democracy and Social Progress (Niger)

The Union for Democracy and Social Progress (French: Union pour la Démocratie et le Progres Social Amana, symbol: UDPS - Amana) is a political party in Niger.

Orientation

The Union for Democracy and Social Progress is a party of the political center. Its members are mostly Tuareg. The party is made up since their founding, the decentralization of Niger. Your house power it has in the region of Agadez, in which the Tuareg represent the majority. The nickname of the party is of Arabic origin ( أمانة / Amana ), meaning " trust".

History

The Union for Democracy and Social Progress was founded on 8 December 1990. Its first chairman was Akoli Daouel. The party participated in the National Conference of 1991 which prepared the change of the country to a democratic multi-party system. Akoli Daouel left the UDPS - Amana in 1992 to found a new party under his leadership, the party of national unity and democracy ( PUND Salama ). The function of the UDPS - Amana - chairman took over until 1996 Abdoullahi Mohamed, who later became the party National Movement of the Development Society ( MNSD - Nassara ) joined, for which he sat from 2004 to 2007 as Minister of Mines in the government.

In the parliamentary elections of 1993, the UDPS Amana succeeded in gaining the National Assembly, where they received one of 83 seats. She stepped in as a member of the nine- party coalition alliance of the forces of change, which sought an end to the autocratic rule of the party MNSD - Nassara what you succeeded provisionally. However, the coalition soon lost important member parties, so that President Mahamane Ousmane of the Alliance Party and Social Democratic Assembly ( CDS Rahama ) a parliamentary majority of opposition parties faced. The stalemate was not lifted by the parliamentary elections in 1995, in which the UDPS - Amana won two of 83 seats, The the President supporting parliamentary parties, including continued the UDPS Amana, presented 40 members of parliament and the opposition parties 43 deputies. The paralyzing political situation was terminated in 1996 by a coup of Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, who was elected president vote in the presidential election of 1996. Unlike most major opposition parties, the UDPS Amana not boycotted the parliamentary elections of 1996 and won three out of 83 seats. Since the fall Baré Maïnassaras and the parliamentary elections of 1999, the UDPS Amana missed in all elections the re-entry into the National Assembly.

In 2005, Rhissa Ag Boula, a founding member of the UDPS - Amana, the party chairmanship. His involvement with the paramilitary rebel organization movement of people in Niger for justice cost him 2008 the county. Since then passes Issouf Bako, a former deputy chairman of the party, the UDPS - Amana. As President Mamadou Tandja ( MNSD - Nassara ) 2009 in the Constitution provided for a third term sought, to this end, the Parliament and the Constitutional Court ausschaltete and settled confirm his retention of power by the constitutional referendum of 2009, the UDPS Amana was one of his supporters. Even after the overthrow of Tandja in 2010 the party supported in the presidential elections of 2011 the MNSD - Nassara candidates Seini Oumarou, the Mahamadou Issoufou but lost by the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism ( PNDS - Tarayya ). 2011, the UDPS Amana joined together with 32 other political parties and groups in an alliance that agreed on common principles and promised to support the government in its Mahamadou Issoufous projects.