Nigerien Progressive Party – African Democratic Rally

The Nigerien Progressive Party (French: Parti progressiste Nigeria, symbol: PPN - RDA) is a political party in Niger. She was from 1960 to 1974, the Unity Party of the state.

History

The Nigerien Progressive Party was founded on May 12, 1946 at the former French overseas territory of Niger. The party joined the Niger section of the African Democratic Rally Party (RDA ), whose founding congress was held in Bamako 18 to 21 October 1946. The PPN delegation at the founding of the RDA led to Issoufou Saïdou Djermakoye who served as the first President of the Central Committee of the PPN. Hamani Diori became party chairman and Djibo Bakary Secretary General of the PPN - RDA. During the elections on November 10, 1946 Diori won the seat of the overseas territory of Niger in the National Assembly of France. There he worked with the French Communist Party, which seemed most likely to represent African interests. Jean Toby, the governor of France in Niger, initiated in 1948, the party establishment of the Union of independent people in Niger and sympathizers (UNIS ) with the aim of weakening the PPN - RDA. Issoufou Saïdou Djermakoye and other PPN - RDA members changed to the pro- French UNIS. The elections for the second Niger deputies in the National Assembly of France on June 27, 1948 won Georges Condat (UNIS ) Djibo Bakary against (PPN - RDA). In June 1950, Daddy Gaoh Party Chairman of the PPN - RDA. On June 17, 1951, when both deputies Niger were newly elected to the French National Assembly, also Hamani Diori lost his seat to a UNIS representative. In the elections to the Territorial Assembly in Niger in 1952, all fifty seats went to the UNIS. The PPN - RDA tried to stop the triumph of UNIS by he made with the UNIS offshoot Nigerien Progressive Union ( UPN) from 1953 to 1954, a Coordinating Committee. When the PPN - RDA or its parent party RDA ended the cooperation with the French Communist Party, Djibo Bakary be said against it, and was therefore excluded from the PPN - RDA. Bakary subsequently founded in 1954 a new party, the Nigerien Democratic Union ( UDN), which in 1956 under his leadership with the Nigerien action block (BNA ) to the party Sawaba merged. Boubou Hama in 1956, instead of Daddy Gaoh Party Chairman of the PPN - RDA. The UNIS was severely weakened by internal party crises and Hamani Diori succeeded in the elections on January 2, 1956 is based in the French National Assembly recover. In the elections to the Territorial Assembly in 1957, the Niger PPN - RDA, however, severed was second behind the Sawaba Djibo Bakary of. The Nigerien government formed after the elections were only ministers of Sawaba and not of PPN - RDA. The decisive change came the constitutional referendum in Niger in 1958, in which the Sawaba for immediate independence of Niger from France and the PPN - RDA was against. The referendum went out in France in favor of a provisional fate. The PPN - RDA received inflow from the ranks of Sawaba and was now a lack of alternatives as the party who had the confidence of the French administration. Due to manipulation by the French administration in elections to the Territorial Assembly in 1958, the Niger Sawaba all seats ultimately lost in the Nigerien parliament, which were occupied by the PPN - RDA. The PPN - RDA was formed under Prime Minister Hamani Diori the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Niger. After the street protests against the election results this Sawaba 1959 prohibited.

The PPN - RDA was formed as a single party and accompanied Niger in 1960 to independence. The occupied exclusively with PPN - RDA deputies National Assembly of Niger, which had emerged from the Territorial Assembly in 1958 elected Niger, Hamani Diori chose in 1960 the first president. Known members of the party of the First Republic (1960-1974), who held ministerial posts were Barcourgné Courmo, Mahamane Dan Dobi, Issa Ibrahim, Amadou Issaka, Yansambou Maiga Diamballa, Boukary Sabo and Mouddour Zakara. As chairman of the party youth officiated for a time Abdou Gaoh. On April 15, 1974 Seyni Kountché took over in a coup d'état. During his reign, all political parties were banned in Niger.

In the period of the democratic change under Kountché successor Ali Saibou the PPN - RDA was formed newly. The driving forces of the foundation were Oumarou Garba Youssoufou and Léopold Kaziendé. From 1990 Harou Kouka held the provisional director of the Politburo. As a registered party of the PPN - RDA exists since April 2, 1992 again. The candidate of the party in the presidential election of 1993 was Oumarou Garba Youssoufou. He was with 1.99% of votes, fifth out of seven candidates. Also in the parliamentary elections in 1993, the first in the country's history since the introduction of multi-party system, remained from the great success: the Nigerien Progressive Party won only two of the 83 seats in the National Assembly. 1995 Youssoufou party chairman of a new small party, the Nigerien Democratic Front was ( FDN Mutunci ). The party presidency of the PPN - RDA first took over Dan Dicko Koulodo, then Abdoulaye Hamani Diori, the eldest son of former President Hamani Diori. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 the party only received a mandate that was perceived by Abdoulaye Hamani Diori. Diori was elected Vice President of the National Assembly. In an electoral alliance with the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism ( PNDS - Tarayya ) succeeded Diori and the PPN - RDA in the parliamentary elections of 2004 to collect a date for the last time in the National Assembly. Since 2009, the party is not represented in Parliament. Abdoulaye Hamani Diori died 2011.