The Democratic Party of Benin (, PDB) was a

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Benin Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north ...

History

The party was established by Soulé Dankoro in 1996. In the 1999 parliamentary elections the party received 1.9% of the vote, winning one seat, with Dankoro becoming its sole MP. Dankoro was the party's candidate for the 2001 presidential elections, but he received less than 1% of the vote, finishing seventh in a field of seventeen candidates. The party joined the New Alliance for the 2003 parliamentary elections,Bogdan Szajkowski (2005) ''Political Parties of the World'', John Harper Publishing, p66 with the alliance winning two seats. Dankoro ran for the presidency on the party's ticket for a second time in

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, but again received less than 1% of the vote, finishing fifteenth out of twenty-six candidates.

References

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