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Movement For Democracy And Progress (Republic Of The Congo)
The Movement for Democracy and Progress (French: ''Mouvement pour la démocratie et le progrès'', MDP) is a political party in the Republic of the Congo, led by Jean-Claude Ibovi. 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 June 24 and August 5, 2007, the party won one out of 137 seats. It supports the government of President Denis Sassou Nguesso. Originally an organization called the National Convention for the Defense and Promotion of Denis Sassou Nguesso's Ideas (CNDPID), it was subsequently transformed into a new political party, the Movement for Democracy and Progress (MDP), which was officially launched on 18 February 2007 under Ibovi's leadership. Ibovi was the only MDP candidate to obtain a seat in the National Assembly in the ...
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Political Party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ideological or policy goals. Political parties have become a major part of the politics of almost every country, as modern party organizations developed and spread around the world over the last few centuries. It is extremely rare for a country to have Non-partisan democracy, no political parties. Some countries have Single-party state, only one political party while others have Multi-party system, several. Parties are important in the politics of autocracies as well as democracies, though usually democracies have more political parties than autocracies. Autocracies often have a single party that governs the country, and some political scientists consider competition between two or more parties to be an essential part of democracy. Part ...
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Republic Of The Congo
The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo river. It is bordered to the west by Gabon, to its northwest by Cameroon and its northeast by the Central African Republic, to the southeast by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to its south by the Angolan exclave of Cabinda Province, Cabinda and to its southwest by the Atlantic Ocean. The region was dominated by Bantu peoples, Bantu-speaking tribes at least 3,000 years ago, who built trade links leading into the Congo River basin. Congo was formerly part of the French colonial empire, French colony of French Equatorial Africa, Equatorial Africa. The Republic of the Congo was established on 28 November 1958 and gained independence from France in 1960. It was a Marxist–Leninist state from 1969 to 1992, under the name ...
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Jean-Claude Ibovi
Jean-Claude Ibovi is a Republic of the Congo, Congolese politician who has served as a Deputy in the National Assembly of the Republic of the Congo, National Assembly of Congo-Brazzaville since 2007. He is President of the Movement for Democracy and Progress (Republic of the Congo), Movement for Democracy and Progress (MDP), a small pro-government party. Political career Ibovi is a brother of François Ibovi, who was a prominent minister in the government of President Denis Sassou Nguesso. He campaigned vigorously for Sassou Nguesso in the 2002 Republic of the Congo presidential election, March 2002 presidential election.Albert M'Paka, ''Démocratie et vie politique au Congo-Brazzaville: Enjeux et recompositions politique'' (2007), pages 261–262 . In the 2002 Republic of the Congo parliamentary election, May–June 2002 parliamentary election, Ibovi stood as the candidate of the National Convention for the Defense and Promotion of Denis Sassou Nguesso's Ideas (CNDPID)Serge- ...
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Republic Of The Congo Parliamentary Election, 2007
Parliamentary elections were held in the Republic of the Congo on 24 June 2007, with a second round initially planned for 22 July 2007, but then postponed to 5 August 2007. According to the National Commission of the Organization of the Elections (CONEL), 1,807 candidates stood in the first round for 137 seats in the National Assembly."Congo: ouverture de la campagne du premier tour des élections législatives"
AFP, 8 June 2007 .
The ruling and parties and independent candidates allied with it won 125 seats, while two opposition parties won a combined 12 seats.
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Denis Sassou Nguesso
Denis Sassou Nguesso (born 23 November 1943) is a Congolese politician and former military officer. He became president of the Republic of the Congo in 1997. He served a previous term as president from 1979 to 1992. During his first period as president, he headed the Congolese Party of Labour (PCT) for 12 years. He introduced multiparty politics in 1990, but was stripped of executive powers by the 1991 National Conference, remaining in office as a ceremonial head of state. He stood as a candidate in the 1992 presidential election but placed third. Sassou Nguesso was an opposition leader for five years before returning to power during the Second Republic of the Congo Civil War, in which his rebel forces ousted President Pascal Lissouba. Following a transitional period, he won the 2002 presidential election, which involved low opposition participation. He was re-elected in the 2009 presidential election. The introduction of a new constitution, passed by referendum in 2015 amid ...
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