Union for Rebirth / Sankarist Party
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History
The party was founded on November 1, 2000. Its president is lawyer Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara,[1] who bears no family relationship to the late President Thomas Sankara.[2]
The name "Sankarist" party appears to be a reference to both President Sankara and the party's leader. The party subscribed to Sankarism.
At the legislative elections on 5 May 2002, the party won 2.4% of the popular vote and three out of 111 seats. In the presidential election of 13 November 2005, its candidate Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara took second place with 4.88% of the popular vote.[3] At the 2007 parliamentary elections, the party won four seats.
Political scientist Template:Interlanguage link states that the UNIR/PS was among the opposition parties that participated in the 2014 uprising that ousted Blaise Compaoré, but that it "did not play a major role". The UNIR/PS went on to support the government of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.[4]
On November 1st, 2021, it was announced that the party merged with the Mouvement Patriotique pour le Salut and other small Sankarist parties and organisations into a new party, the Union pour la Renaissance/ Mouvement patriotique sankariste (Union for Rebirth / Patriotic Sankarist Movement) or UNIR/MPS.[5][6] Bénéwendé Sankara continued to lead this party until he was succeeded by interim president Augustin Loada in January 2023.[7]
Electoral history
National Assembly
| Election year | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | # of overall seats won | +/– |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 42,599 | 2.45 (#) | Template:Composition bar | |
| 2007 | 90,705 | 3.89 (#4) | Template:Composition bar | Increase 1 |
| 2012 | 131,592 | 4.36 (#4) | Template:Composition bar | Steady |
| 2015 | 118,662 | 3.76 (#5) | Template:Composition bar | Increase 1 |
| 2020 | 68,727 | 2.45 (#6) | Template:Composition bar | Steady |
See also
References
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- ↑ Page about the party Template:Webarchive on thomassankara.net.
- ↑ De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway and Moussa Traore, "Military Coup, Popular Revolution or Militarised Revolution?", in A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara (ed. Amber Murrey), London: Pluto Press, 2018, p. 22.
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- ↑ Bettina Engels, "Social Movement Struggles and Political Transition in Burkina Faso", in A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara (ed. Amber Murrey), London: Pluto Press, 2018, pp. 264-265.
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