Congress for Democracy and Progress
Congress for Democracy and Progress Congrès pour la Démocratie et le Progrès | |
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| Leader | Eddie Komboïgo |
| Founder | Blaise Compaoré |
| Founded | 6 February 1996 |
| Ideology | Big tent |
| National Assembly |
18 / 127 |
The Congress for Democracy and Progress (French: Congrès pour la Démocratie et le Progrès, CDP) was the ruling political party in Burkina Faso until the overthrow of Blaise Compaoré in 2014.
History
The party was founded in February 1996 by merger of the Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement and nine parties supportive of it (the National Convention of Progressive Patriots–Social Democratic Party, the Party for Democracy and Rally, the Movement for Socialist Democracy, the Union of Social Democrats, the Group of Revolutionary Democrats, the Rally of Social-Democrat Independents, the Party for Panafricanism and Unity, the Union of Democrats and Patriots of Burkina and the Party of Action for the Liberalism in Solidarity), as well as factions of the Group of Patriotic Democrats and the Burkinabé Socialist Bloc.[1]
Since the reestablishment of the office of Prime Minister in 1992, all Prime Ministers of Burkina Faso have been members of this party, as have most other national officials, and the party has the most seats in Parliament.
In the parliamentary election held on 5 May 2002, the party won 49.5% of the popular vote and 57 out of 111 seats.
In the presidential election of 13 November 2005, CDP candidate Blaise Compaoré won 80.35% of the popular vote. At the May 2007 parliamentary election, the party expanded its majority, winning 73 seats.
In 2012, Assimi Kouanda was elected as the CDP's National Executive Secretary.
The party still had representation in parliament after the overthrow of President Blaise Compaoré in October 2014, and remains represented following the November 2015 general elections.
The CDP held its sixth ordinary congress in Ouagadougou on 9–10 May 2015. Eddie Komboïgo, a businessman who had been a Deputy in the National Assembly prior to its 2014 dissolution, was elected as President of the CDP, while Compaoré was designated as Honorary President.[2] On 11 July 2015, Komboïgo was designated as the CDP's candidate for the October 2015 presidential election.[3][4] Komboïgo was subsequently barred from standing, and the CDP had no presidential candidate; however, it won 18 out of 127 seats in the concurrent parliamentary election.[5]
References
- ↑ Lawrence Rupley, Lamissa Bangali & Boureima Diamitani (2013) Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso, Rowman & Littlefield, p44
- ↑ Benjamin Roger, "Burkina : le CDP se choisit un nouveau président proche de Compaoré", Jeune Afrique, 10 May 2015 (French).
- ↑ Benjamin Roger, "Burkina : Eddie Komboïgo sera le candidat du CDP à la présidentielle", Jeune Afrique, 10 July 2015 (French).
- ↑ "Burkina: le CDP investit Eddie Komboïgo pour la présidentielle", Radio France Internationale, 11 July 2015 (French).
- ↑ Patrick Fort and Romaric Ollo Hien, "Burkina president-elect's party tops legislative poll, no majority", Agence France-Presse, 2 December 2015.
