The L'Alliance de L'avenir ( French: ''Alliance of Future'') was a political alliance in

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which was formed in 2010 for the next parliamentary elections which were held on 5 May 2010. It is an alliance of the Labour Party, Mouvement Socialiste Militant and

Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate The Mauritian Social Democratic Party (PMSD, ), also known as the Mauritian Conservative Party, is a political party in Mauritius. It is conservative and Francophilic. It is the fourth biggest political party in the National Assembly and forms p ...

. It was formed by the prime minister Dr. Navin Ramgoolam and is led by three other people, namely

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Xavier-Luc Duval Charles Gaëtan Xavier Luc Duval (born 28 January 1958) is a Mauritian politician who is the present Leader of the Opposition and was also Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius in the cabinet of Sir Anerood Jugnauth from December 2014 to December ...

and

Pravind Jugnauth Pravind Kumar Jugnauth (born 25 December 1961) is a Mauritian politician serving as the prime minister of Mauritius since January 2017. Jugnauth has been the leader of the Militant Socialist Movement (MSM) party since April 2003. He has held a n ...

. The party alliance won the general elections held on 5 May 2010 and is the majority alliance and forms the government of Mauritius, where the largest party is the Labour Party, with 27 MPs in all and headed by Prime Minister

Navin Ramgoolam Navinchandra Ramgoolam, GCSK, FRCP (born 14 July 1947) is a Mauritian politician who was former Prime Minister of Mauritius from 2005 to 2014 and leader of the Labour Party (Mauritius). He was Leader of the Opposition from 1991 to 1995. He ser ...

and is followed by the Militant Socialist Movement with 14 MPs and is headed by

who became Vice Prime Minister following the alliance. The Mauritian Social Democrat Party has 4 MPs and the leader

is also Vice Prime Minister. The party has been kept for ethnic representation as alone the labour and MSM have absolute majority by 41 seats on 69. The Labour Party is an aristocratic movement headed by mostly Hindus and the MSM is a Vaish dominant party which competes for the Hindu vote. Having two parties with Hindu majority was not perceived as representing the whole population and ethnic minorities. The Social Democrats, which is a Christian majority party, has therefore paved its way to form part of the government.

History

The First alliance between the Labour Party, MSM and PMSD was made in 1983 by then Prime Minister

Anerood Jugnauth Sir Anerood Jugnauth, GCSK, PV, (29 March 1930 – 3 June 2021) was a Mauritian politician and barrister who served both as President and Prime Minister of Mauritius. He was Member of Parliament for Piton & Riviere Du Rempart. A central fi ...

. The main party in parliament was the MMM and it had defected the Labour Party with the 1982 elections with no labour candidate was elected to parliament. After having conflicts with

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, Jugnauth resigned as Prime Minister but however dissolved the National Assembly on the same just hours before announcing his resignation . He formed the new party, namely MSM with the help of the Socialist Mauritian Party of Harish Boodhoo and some other members of the MMM who approved of his policies . Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, leader of the Labour Party had reached his 83rd birthday and could not stand as prime minister candidate for Labour. Instead they contracted an alliance with the MSM of Jugnauth obtaining 35 ticket allocation and the Labour 15 tickets. They made an electoral pact with the PMSD and agreed to not put any Labour-MSM candidate for the resting of 60 seats . PMSD eventually got the 12 resting tickets. The results was of MSM having 29 Mps, the Labour having 9 Mps and the PSMD left with 3 Mps . They formed the government with 45 Mps in all with

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as Prime Minister,

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (in traditional Hindi: Shivsagar Ram Gulam) (18 September 1900 – 15 December 1985; often referred to as ''Chacha Ramgoolam'' or ''SSR'') was a Mauritian physician, politician, and statesman. He served as the island's ...

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, Gaetan Duval as Deputy Prime Minister and new leader of the labour, Sir Satcam Boolell became Minister of Foreign Affairs . {{DEFAULTSORT:Alliance Of The Future Political parties in Mauritius Communist parties in Mauritius Socialist parties in Mauritius Social democratic parties in Africa