Union for the Republic (Mauritania)

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Union for the Republic
الاتحاد من أجل الجمهورية
PresidentSidi Mohamed Ould Taleb Omar
FounderMohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Founded5 May 2009[1]
Dissolved3 July 2022
Succeeded byEquity Party
HeadquartersNouakchott
IdeologyPopulism[citation needed]
Political positionCentre[2][3] to centre-right[4][better source needed]
National affiliationCoalition of the Majority
International affiliationCentrist Democrat International
Website
www.upr.mr

The Union for the Republic (Arabic: الاتحاد من أجل الجمهورية; French: Union pour la République, UPR) was a political party in Mauritania. The party was formed in 5 May 2009 by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz after he resigned from the military, to run for President of Mauritania. Aziz resigned as chairman of the party on 2 August 2009 after winning the presidential election, as the President of Mauritania cannot be a member of any party.[5] The party also won 13 of the 17 seats up for re-election to the Mauritanian Senate in 2009, giving the UPR control of a total of 38 of the 53 Senate seats.[6][7]

As a result of the 2018 parliamentary election, UPR became the largest political party in Mauritania.[8] Four major political parties merged into the Union for the Republic after the election. On October 18, 2018, a month after the previous legislative election, the Unionist Party for the Construction of Mauritania voted to merge itself into the UPR.[9] On the 21st, Choura for Development adopted the same decision,[10] while centrist El Wiam, which used to be on the moderate opposition, did the same on the 29th.[11] The last party to merge into the UPR was the National Pact for Democracy and Development, which was the previous ruling party from 2007 until 2008's coup. PNDD-ADIL merged into the UPR on December 27, 2019.[12]

The party refounded itself as the Equity Party in 3 July 2022.[13]

Election results[edit]

Presidential[edit]

President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
Election year Candidate 1st round 2nd round Result Winning candidate
Votes % Rank Votes % Rank
2009 Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz 409,024 52.54 1st — Won Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
2014 577,995 81.89 1st — Won
2019 Mohamed Ould Ghazouani 483,007 52.00 1st — Won Mohamed Ould Ghazouani

National Assembly elections[edit]

Election Party leader PR seats Women's seats Constituency seats Seats +/– Position
Votes % Votes % First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
2013 Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed Lemine 127,580 21.34% 138,651 24.74% 299,605 39.21% 124,656 55.11%
75 / 146
 Increase 75 Increase 1st
2018 136,809 19.47% 135,831 19.60%
93 / 157
 Increase 18 Steady 1st

Presidents of the Union for the Republic[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Q&A: Mauritania elections". 17 July 2009 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  2. ^ Porges, Matthew (2019-06-14). "In Bir Moghrein". LRB Blog. London Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  3. ^ IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2014 (Report). European Institute of the Mediterranean. 2014. p. 421. ISSN 1698-3068. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Mauritania - Africa Elects". Africa Elects. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
  5. ^ "Mauritania's president-elect resigns as party leader". People's Daily Online.
  6. ^ "MAURITANIA (Majlis Al-Chouyoukh)". Archived from the original on February 9, 2015. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
  7. ^ "Mauritania" (PDF). U.S. Department of State.
  8. ^ "Mauritania's ruling party wins majority parliament". Washington Post.
  9. ^ "Le parti unioniste pour la construction de la Mauritanie rejoint l'UPR" [The Unionist Party for the Construction of Mauritania joins the UPR]. Chezvlane (in French). 2018-10-18. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  10. ^ حزب الشورى من أجل التنمية يقرر الإندماج بحزب الإتحاد من أجل الجمهورية [The Choura for Development Party decides to merger in the Union for the Republic.] (Facebook Watch video) (in Hassaniya Arabic). El Mourabitoun. October 21, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2022.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  11. ^ "Annonce de la fusion du parti El Wiam dans l'UPR" [Announcement of the fusion of El Wiam party into UPR]. AMI (Mauritania News Agency) (in French). 2018-10-29. Archived from the original on 2018-12-07. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  12. ^ "Politique: Adil intègre l'UPR (officiel)" [Politics: Adil joins the UPR (official)]. Rimfeed (in French). 2019-12-27. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
  13. ^ "ولد أييه رئيسا للحزب الحاكم بعد تغيير اسمه وشعاره" [Ould Eiye [is the] president of the governing party after its name and symbol change.]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 2022-07-03. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
  14. ^ "Mauritanie : l'UPR tourne la page de l'ancien président Aziz – Jeune Afrique" [Mauritania: the UPR turns the page of the old president Aziz - Young Africa]. JeuneAfrique.com (in French). 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2021-09-08..
  15. ^ "ولد أييه رئيسا للحزب الحاكم بعد تغيير اسمه وشعاره" [Ould Eiye [is the] president of the governing party after its name and symbol change.]. AlAkhbar.info (in Arabic). 2022-07-03. Retrieved 2022-07-04.

External links[edit]

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