Democratic and Social Convention

The Democratic and Social Rally (French: Convention démocratique et sociale - Rahama, symbol: CDS Rahama ) is a political party in Niger.

History

The subsequent political party dates back to the Association Mutuelle pour la Culture et les Arts ( amaca ), a representative body of Hausa founded in the late 1980s by intellectuals from Zinder and Maradi. The amaca was led by Mahamane Ousmane and pursued the goal of breaking the political hegemony of the Zarma and Songhai in Niger. In the wake of the political turmoil in the early 1990s ethnically or regionally oriented political groups were banned. From amaca the Social Democratic CDS Rahama was so 1991 Mahamane Ousmane as a regular political party. She was a founding member of the existing 1991 to 1996, nine- party coalition alliance of the forces of change that was formed in opposition to the autocracy of the National Movement of the Development Society ( MNSD - Nassara ). Amadou Cheiffou, the deputy leader of the CDS - Rahama, was prime minister in 1991 lasting until 1993 transition period up to the first multi-party elections in Niger.

In the parliamentary elections of 1993, the CDS Rahama entered the National Assembly. She won 22 of 83 seats. The alliance of the forces of change received a total of 50 seats, which the majority of the MNSD - Nassara was broken. The presidential elections of 1993 brought the CDS Rahama candidates Mahamane Ousmane victory ahead of second-placed MNSD - Nassara Mamadou Tandja candidates. The alliance of the forces of change formed a coalition government, but in 1994 lost its parliamentary majority. After the parliamentary elections in 1995, in which the CDS could Rahama of 83 mandates to improve only slightly in 24, President Mahamane Ousmane had to accept a MNSD - Nassara politician as prime minister. This led to a policy of blockade ( cohabitation ), which was set in 1996 by a led by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara coup to an end. Maïnassara won the described by observers as rigged presidential election of 1996, in which his predecessor Ousmane with officially just under 20 percent share of the vote was runner-up. The parliamentary elections in 1996 were boycotted by the CDS Rahama as from all the major opposition parties.

After the violent death Maïnassaras the 1999 presidential elections were held in which Mahamane Ousmane received third place and won by Mamadou Tandja from MNSD - Nassara Mahamadou Issoufou of the PNDS before - Tarayya. In the runoff between Tandja and Issoufou CDS Rahama played by their recommendation to vote the kingmaker who - turned out for Mamadou Tandja - as well as in the presidential election of 2004, in which the ranking of the top three candidates was the same. The parliamentary elections of 1999 brought the CDS Rahama 17 of 83 parliamentary seats. In January 2004, the Social Democratic Alliance ( RSD Gaskiya ) split under the leadership of Amadou Cheiffou, the deputy party leader of the CDS - Rahama, from the party. In the parliamentary elections of 2004, the CDS Rahama 22 and RSD- Gaskiya received 7 of 113 seats in the National Assembly. The CDS Rahama was until 2009, the coalition partner of the MNSD - Nassara in government under President Mamadou Tandja, who was overthrown by a coup in 2010 because of his increasingly autocratic style of government. Mamamane Ousmane Issoufou Mahamadou drove in ( PNDS - Tarayya ) won presidential elections in 2011 with just over eight per cent share of the vote to be a far worst result. In the parliamentary elections of 2011, the CDS Rahama crashed on three out of 113 seats.