The Democratic Forum for Modernity (french: Forum Démocratique pour la Modernité, FODEM) is a

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in the

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History

The party was founded by Charles Massi on 27 November 1997 and legally recognized on 4 May 1998.Charles Massi
FODEM In the 1998 parliamentary elections it won two seats in the

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. Massi was the party's candidate for the 1999 presidential elections, finishing eighth out of ten candidates with 1.3% of the vote. In the first round of the

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held on 13 March 2005, Massi won 3.2% of the vote.Elections in the Central African Republic
African Elections Database. He backed

François Bozizé François Bozizé Yangouvonda (born 14 October 1946) is a Central African politician who was President of the Central African Republic from 2003 to 2013. Bozizé rose to become a high-ranking army officer in the 1970s, under the rule of Jean-B� ...

in the second round and became a Minister of State in the government after the elections.Lists of governments of the Central African Republic
IZF In the simultaneous National Assembly elections, the party was reduced to a single seat. After Massi was appointed as Political Coordinator of the Union of Democratic Forces for the Rally (UFDR) rebel group, FODEM rejected this move and expelled Massi from the party; it established a provisional political bureau on 22 May 2008 with

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as President. In 2010, FODEM joined the Presidential Majority alliance in preparation for the 2011 general elections. The party nominated six candidates for the 105 seats in the

,CAR: Number of National Assembly candidates by party in the 2011 election
EISA and although the alliance won 11 seats, FODEM failed to win a seat.

References

External links

Official website
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