Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Movement

The Union pour la Renaissance / Mouvement sankariste ( UNIR / MS) was a party from the West African nation of Burkina Faso. Founded in 2000, they managed to establish itself as the strongest sankaristische party. In 2009 it merged with the small convention Panafricaine Sankariste (CPS ) to the Union pour la Renaissance / Parti Sankariste ( UNIR / PS).

She was all over the country and is represented in the Burkina Faso parliament since 2002. In the local elections of 22 July 2006, she managed a moderate success and was able to win some seats in local councils. In the parliamentary elections of 6 May 2007, she was able to expand their share of the vote and received four instead of three existing seats in the National Assembly.

2005 presidential election

The party president Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara stood in the 2005 presidential election as a candidate on, but his candidacy was gone difficult despite militant tones from the beginning, because he took along with 14 other candidates against the incumbent. He finally came up with 4.88 % to second place behind the former President Blaise Compaoré.

Ideology

Ideologically, UNIR / MS sees in the tradition of former President Thomas Sankara, a socialist revolutionary. Critics accuse the UNIR / MS prior to interpret Sankara too much to your preference and to occupy positions of ambiguity, for example, in terms of economic policy.

The UNIR / MS was in their time not only the largest but also the only sankaristischer among the plurality parties in Burkina Faso, which had a nation-wide mobilization potential.