Alliance for Democracy in Mali
The Alliance pour la Démocratie en Mali - Parti Pan - Africain pour la Liberté, la Solidarité et la Justice, ADEMA - PASJ is a political party in Mali.
History
On October 25, 1990, political opponents of the dictatorship of Moussa Traoré united as ADEMA. This over-organization contains the following organizations:
- The Sudanese Union ( Rassemblement Démocratique Africain Soudanaise -, US- RDA ) party of former Modibo Keïta
- The Malian Party for Revolution and Democracy ( le Parti pour la révolution malien et la démocratie, PMDR )
- The Malian Party of Labour ( Parti du Travail anomalies, PMT ), a Marxist-Leninist organization
- The Malian Democratic Front ( le Democratic Front populaire et anomalies, FDPM ), consisting mainly of Malian immigrants and political exiles
The ADEMA also attracts many supporters to not have overriding political affiliation.
On May 25, 1991, after the regime of Moussa Traoré was overthrown by General Amadou Toumani Touré, the ADEMA transformed itself into a political party and took the name ADEMA - Parti Africain pour la Solidarité et la Justice.
1992 dominated the ADEMA - PASJ the elections in February and March and won 76 of 116 seats in the Malian National Assembly. Your candidate for president, Alpha Oumar Konaré, became president of the republic. The ADEMA - PASJ, the government continued over the next decade and KONARE was re-elected for a boycott of the elections in 1997.
At the end of the second term Konaré, the ADEMA - PASJ be split over the question of succession of the President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta where the party in October 2000 and left the party to found the Movement for Mali. Former Prime Minister Mandé Sidibé also left the party to run for the office of President.
2002 Soumaïla Cissé was the official presidential candidate of the ADEMA - PASJ. He won 22.7 % of the votes in the first round of presidential elections on April 28 and was beaten in the second round by Amadou Toumani Touré, said that won 35.7 % of votes. In the parliamentary elections on 14 July 2002, the party won 45 of 160 seats. 6 additional seats were won by partners of the Alliance for Democracy and Republic.
The ADEMA - PASJ presented Touré on for re-election in the presidential elections in April 2007. However, this was rejected by the Vice-President of the party, Soumeylou Boubèye Maiga, who was consequently expelled from the party. In the parliamentary elections of July 2007, the ADEMA - PASJ 51 won 147 seats, more than any other party. In the total of 16 elected parties and individual candidates followed the Union pour la République et la démocratie ( URD ) with 34 Indépendant with 15 and RPM with 11 seats.
The motto of the ADEMA - PASJ is " labor - solidarity - righteousness "; its symbol is the bee. The current party President is Dioncounda Traoré.
The ADEMA - PASJ is a full member of the Socialist International.