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2019 Beninese Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Benin on 28 April 2019.Bénin : Patrice Talon fixe les législatives au 28 avril 2019 Jeune Afrique, 10 January 2019 Background The election date was set at a meeting of the Council of Ministers on 9 January 2019, with the term of the National Assembly elected in due to expire in March 2019.Electoral system The 83 members of the |
2015 Beninese Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Benin on 26 April 2015. Electoral system The 83 members of the National Assembly are elected in 24 multi-member constituencies, based on the country's departments. Seats are allocated using proportional representation based on the simple quotient, with remaining seats assigned using the largest remainder method. Conduct Observers from the African Union stated that the elections were generally transparent, despite some organisational challenges. Results Aftermath When the National Assembly began meeting for its new term, Adrien Houngbédji was elected as President of the National Assembly on the night of 19–20 May 2015; as the candidate representing the opposition, he received 42 votes, while the candidate representing President Yayi Boni's supporters, Komi Koutché, received 41. Members of the opposition dominated the Bureau of the National Assembly, obtaining six of its seven posts. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Makes The Nation
Union Makes the Nation (french: L'Union fait la Nation, abbreviated UN or the Union) is an alliance of opposition political parties in Benin. It is composed of the African Movement for Development and Progress, MADEP, Social Democratic Party (Benin), PSD, Benin Rebirth Party, RB, Key Force, Movement for Development and Solidarity, MDS, National Union for Democracy and Progress (Benin), UNDP, MARCHE, Party for Democracy and Social Progress, PDPS and Rally of Liberal Democrats for National Reconstruction, RDL VIVOTEN, and therefore represents an expansion of the Alliance for a Democratic Dynamic to embrace most of the significant Beninese parties opposed to the government of President Yayi Boni. The Union contested the Beninese presidential election, 2011, 2011 presidential and Beninese parliamentary election, 2011, parliamentary elections. Their presidential candidate, Adrien Houngbédji, was credited with 35.7% of the vote; he issued a statement rejecting the validity of the electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrice Talon
Patrice Guillaume Athanase Talon (born 1 May 1958) is a Beninese politician and businessman who has been President of Benin since 6 April 2016. Early life and career Talon is of Fon origin and was born in Ouidah. He descends from slave traders. His father was from Ouidah while his mother came from a Guédégbé family in Abomey. He obtained a baccalaureate in Dakar, Senegal. After obtaining a "C" grade in his bachelor's degree in science at the University of Dakar, he was transferred to the École nationale de l'aviation civile in Paris. With dreams of becoming a pilot, Talon failed a medical test and this dream became impossible. In 1983, Talon became involved in trading packaging and agricultural inputs. In 1985, he returned to Benin and established the Intercontinental Distribution Company ''(Société Distribution Intercontinentale''; ''SDI)'', which supplies agricultural inputs to cotton producers. In 1990, after recommendations by the World Bank to liberalize economies i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Renewal Party (Benin)
The Democratic Renewal Party (french: Parti du renouveau démocratique) is a political party of Benin led by Adrien Houngbédji. Houngbédji lived in exile for several years, but returned to Benin to take part in the National Conference of 1990. He built up his party largely around other exiled Beninese. PRD was legally recognized on September 24, 1990. Houngbédji was elected to the National Assembly in the 1991 parliamentary election and served as President of the National Assembly until 1995. In 1996 PRD joined the government, and Houngbédji was appointed Prime Minister. The coalition didn't last, however. Following the 1999 parliamentary election, Houngbédji was again elected as President of the National Assembly. The PRD is mainly based in Ouémé. In the presidential election of 5 March 2006, Houngbédji, the PRD candidate, won 24.2% of the votes in the first round. In the second round he won 25.4% and was defeated by Yayi Boni. Parliamentary election results *1991 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Boni Yayi
Thomas Boni Yayi (born 1 July 1951) is a Beninese banker and politician who was President of Benin from 2006 to 2016. He took office after winning the March 2006 presidential election and was re-elected to a second term in March 2011. He also served as the Chairperson of the African Union from 29 January 2012 to 27 January 2013. Early life and banking career Boni was born in Tchaourou, in the Borgou Department in northern Benin, then the French colony of Dahomey. He received his education first in the regional capital of Parakou before moving on to earn a master's degree in economics at the National University of Benin. He then pursued an additional master's degree in economics at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, and then earned a doctorate in economics and politics at the University of Orléans in France and at Paris Dauphine University, where he completed a doctorate in economics in 1976. At the end of his education, Boni began a long career in banking. Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowry Forces For An Emerging Benin
The Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin (french: Forces Cauris pour un Bénin émergent, FCBE) is a political party of Benin, formed by supporters of president Yayi Boni. In the parliamentary election held on 31 March 2007, the party won 35 out of 83 seats. The party expanded its plurality to 41 seats in the 2011 election that followed the contested reelection of Yayi Boni as president. After President Boni Yayi had served maximum two five-year terms, Lionel Zinsou, the candidate for Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin (FCBE), lost the March 2016 presidential election to Patrice Talon Patrice Guillaume Athanase Talon (born 1 May 1958) is a Beninese politician and businessman who has been President of Benin since 6 April 2016. Early life and career Talon is of Fon origin and was born in Ouidah. He descends from slave trader .... A controversial new electoral code introduced in July 2018 saw the party fail to be validated to run in the 2019 Beninese parliamentary election. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union For Benin
The Union for Benin (french: Union pour le Bénin, UB) is a political alliance in Benin led by Barnabé Dassigli.Tom Lansford (2013) ''Political Handbook of the World 2013'', CQ Press, p145 The alliance supports President Yayi Boni Yayi may refer to * China-Taiwan Yayi Cup, a Go competition *Thomas Boni Yayi Thomas Boni Yayi (born 1 July 1951) is a Beninese banker and politician who was President of Benin from 2006 to 2016. He took office after winning the March 2006 presi .... History The alliance was created on 21 March 2011, and consists of the Union for Labour and Democracy led by Dassigli, the Party for Development and Reform of Lucien Houngnibo, the Union for the Triumph of the Republic (Antoine Alabi Gbègan), the Union of Citizen Forces (Lucien Agbota) and the Movement for Development, Culture and Peace (Faustin Godovo). In the April 2011 parliamentary elections it received 4.5% of the vote, winning two seats. Houngnibo and Hounsa Justin Agbodjèté became the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scout Alliance
The Scout Alliance (french: Alliance Eclaireur) is a political alliance in Benin led by Edmond Agoua. History The alliance was launched on 20 February 2015. It included the Party for Democracy and Social Progress, the Renewal Party for Solidarity and Progress, the Coalition for an Emerging Benin, the Common Action Front for the Emergence of a New Ethic in Benin, the New Alliance for Development, the Party for the Impulse of Development and Active Solidarity, the Movement for Social Democracy The Movement for Social Democracy ( el, Κίνημα Σοσιαλδημοκρατών, translit=Kinima Sosialdimokraton, EDEK) is a Greek Cypriot, social-democratic political party in Cyprus. Overview The party was founded by Vasos Lyssaridis i ..., the Party of Collective Awakening for a Better Tomorrow, the Wadedji Democratic Party, the Liberal Reformer Party, Generation-Action-Progress, the Young Turks, the Movement for Solidarity and Durable Development and the Youth Mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union For Democracy And National Solidarity
The Union for Democracy and National Solidarity (french: Union pour la Démocratie et la Solidarité Nationale) is an oppositional political party in Benin. The party's president, Sacca Lafia, was its candidate in the March 2001 presidential election, receiving 1.20% of the vote and fifth place. African Elections Database. It was part of the which contested the 1999 and 2003 parliamentary elections. At the Beninese parliamentary election, 2003
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Union For Relief
The ''Union for Relief' (''Union pour la Relève (UPR)'') is a political party of Benin. In the parliamentary election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ... held on 31 March 2007, the party won three out of 83 seats. African Elections Database. References Political parties in Benin Political parties with year of estab ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Democratic Forces (Benin)
The United Democratic Forces (french: Forces Démocratiques Unies, FDU) is a political alliance in Benin led by Mathurin Nago. History In response to president Yayi Boni's potential constitution change to allow him to run for a third term, Nago left the Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin. The FDU was established on 9 February 2015 as an alliance of the Union for Progress and Democracy, Impulse for a New Vision of the Republic, the Party for Progress and Democracy and the Party for Democracy and Solidarity, all of which had previously been part of the Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin The Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin (french: Forces Cauris pour un Bénin émergent, FCBE) is a political party of Benin, formed by supporters of president Yayi Boni. In the parliamentary election held on 31 March 2007, the party won 35 out .... The alliance won four seats in the 2015 parliamentary elections. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Of People For Progress
The Congress of People for Progress () is a political party in Benin. At the last legislative elections in Benin, on March 30, 2003, the party was a member of the Presidential Movement, the alliance of supporters of Mathieu Kérékou, who had won the 2001 presidential elections. It took part in a combined list of the Movement for Development by Culture, the Party of Salvation The Party of Salvation (, PS) was a political party in Benin. History The PS was established in 1994. It contested the 1995 parliamentary elections in an alliance with the National Rally for Justice and Peace. However, the two parties failed to ... and the Congress of People for Progress, that won 2 of the 83 available seats. References Political parties in Benin Political parties with year of establishment missing {{Benin-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
