Party for National Unity and Development

The Party for national unification and democracy (French: Parti pour l' Union et la Démocratie - National Salama, symbol: PUND Salama ) is a political party in Niger.

History

The Party for national unification and democracy was founded on 19 June 1992 by Akoli Daouel, who had already founded in December 1990, the Union for Democracy and Social Progress ( UDPS - Amana). Both parties have their power base among the Tuareg in the north of the country. The PUND Salama was a member of the existing and 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 ). In the parliamentary elections of 1993, from which the Alliance emerged victorious, the PUND Salama as two other small parties of the coalition but missed a place in the National Assembly. In the subsequent parliamentary elections of 1995, the party won three of 83 seats. She supported President Mahamane Ousmane of the Party of Democratic and Social Rally ( CDS Rahama ), but whose stock could not achieve a parliamentary majority. 1996 split some party members from Tilabéri off with a small party, the Party for Democratic Renewal ( PRD Mahiba ) from PUND Salama. Since the coup of Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara and the parliamentary elections of 1996, the PUND Salama is no longer represented in the National Assembly. The party initially belonged to the supporters Baré Maïnassaras, but joined on 2 February 1997, the Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Progress ( ANDP - Zaman Lahiya ) and the newly founded Nigerien Party for self-administration ( PNA Al'ouma ) to a party alliance in opposition Baré Maïnassara together. In the presidential elections of 2011, the PUND Salama supported the MNSD - Nassara candidates Seini Oumarou, who had to give, however, Mahamadou Issoufou of the Nigerien beaten Party for Democracy and Socialism ( PNDS - Tarayya ).