Burkinabé Socialist Party (in
French
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: ''Party Socialiste Burkinabé'') was a
political party
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in
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...
. The PSB split from the
PAI in the early 1990s. Its leader was Ouindélassida François Ouédraogo.
At the legislative elections in 1992, the PSB won 1.2% of the popular vote and 1 out of 111 seats. In 1997, it won 1.8% of the vote and one seat.
In May 2001, it merged with the
Party for Democracy and Progress.
Defunct political parties in Burkina Faso
Socialist parties in Burkina Faso
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