People's Progressive Alliance (Mauritania)

The People's Progressive Alliance ("Alliance populaire progressiste", APP) is a political party in Mauritania.

The President of the APP is Messoud Ould Boulkheir, [http://www.lemauritanien.com/actualite/articles/9/1.php "Messoud Ould Boulkheir, candidat à la présidentielle mauritanienne de mars"] , African Press Agency (lemauritanien.com), January 20, 2007 fr.] who was a candidate in the November 2003 presidential election, which was won by President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya. After Taya's ouster in 2005, Boulkheir stood as the APP candidate again in the March 2007 presidential election. In this election, held on March 11, he placed fourth, receiving 9.79% of the vote; [ [http://www.ami.mr/fr/articles/2007/mars/15/5.html "Le conseil constitutionnel proclame les résultats du premier tour de l'élection présidentielles du 11 mars 2007"] , Agence Mauritanienne d'Information, March 15, 2007 fr icon.] he subsequently backed Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi for the second round, [ [http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/news/awi/newsbriefs/general/2007/03/20/newsbrief-02 "Debate between Mauritanian presidential candidates to be held on Friday"] , Maghrebia.com, March 20, 2007.] despite the participation of the APP in the Coalition of the Forces for Democratic Change along with the other second round candidate, Ahmed Ould Daddah. [ [http://apanews.net/spip.php?page=show_article&id_article=24342 "How Sidi Ould Abdellahi won the Mauritanian presidential election"] , African Press Agency, March 27, 2007.] Abdallahi won the election, and in April 2007, Boulkheir was elected as President of the National Assembly. [ [http://www.ami.mr/fr/articles/2007/avril/26/5.html "L'Assemblée nationale élit M. Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, son président"] , AMI, April 26, 2007 fr icon.]

The APP won 5 seats in the National Assembly of Mauritania in the 2006 parliamentary election, along with another two seats won jointly with the Mauritanian Party for Union and Change (HATEM). [http://www.ipu.org/parline-f/reports/1207_E.htm IPU page on 2006 parliamentary election] fr] In the government of Prime Minister Zeine Ould Zeidane, named in April 2007, three members of the APP were appointed as ministers. [ [http://www.jeuneafrique.com/fluxafp/fil_info.asp?reg_id=0&art_cle=36531 "Mauritanie: formation d'un nouveau gouvernement"] , AFP (Jeuneafrique.com), April 28, 2007 fr.] In the 21 January and 4 February 2007 Senate election, the APP won 1 out of 56 seats.

On September 2 2007, Boulkheir said that the APP would not join a new party being formed to support Abdallahi. [ [http://www.afriquenligne.fr/actualites/politique/ould-belkheir-refuse-d%27integrer-le-nouveau-parti-presidentiel-200709037766/ "Ould Belkheir refuse d'intégrer le nouveau parti présidentiel"] , Panapress (afriquenligne.fr), September 3, 2007 fr.]

Following the August 2008 military coup d'état, the APP, along with the pro-Abdallahi National Pact for Democracy and Development (PNDD-ADIL), joined the four-party National Front for the Defence of Democracy, which opposed the coup. [ [http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iViIqJ4KOZPaLrit7zpLFOEX4hPg "Hundreds attend anti-coup rally in Mauritania"] , AFP, August 8, 2008.]

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External links

* [http://www.app-mauritanie.org/ APP website]